People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.