Comment by chaostheory

1. The issue is that most people and organizations do not care about maintenance. Maintenance doesn’t get you the promotion, accolades, or immediate quarterly revenue because great maintenance tends to be invisible.

2. This is exacerbated by the lack of loyalty people have towards their organizations because their orgs don’t value or reward loyalty. That’s because leadership doesnt care about the long term view because of item #1. Hence, everyone is only doing short 1 - 4 year stints in order to get meaningful raises

3. The exceptions in the private sector are businesses that not publicly traded.

4. Even then, very few people care about quality that no one else can see