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ikeboy on June 7, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: For more and more people, work appears to serve no...

>“Duct tapers” are hired to patch or bridge major flaws that their bosses are too lazy or inept to fix systemically.

Or, fixing the issue after the fact is cheaper than a systemic fix, so duct tapers are more efficient.

s73v3r_ on June 8, 2018 [–]

Usually for a one-off, it can be cheaper to duct-tape than to do a real fix, but the problem is that those issues keep happening. So it doesn't take long for the duct-tape fixes to cost more in total.

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