It's much easier to produce quickly something horrible without much thought, report it to manager as done, be seen as "gets shit done fast" and get promoted than to take time and effort to do well thought through scalable and reusable things and accept consequences of thanklessly taking time and expending effort.
What would the things
of Troy, be to you, Achaeans, without Helen?
Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas.
Half the catalogue of ships is mine:
that flight of cranes, long stretched-out line,
that once rose, out of Hellas.
To an alien land, like a phalanx of cranes –
Foam of the gods on the heads of kings –
Where do you sail? What would the things
of Troy, be to you, Achaeans, without Helen?
The sea, or Homer – all moves by love’s glow.
Which should I hear? Now Homer is silent,
and the Black Sea thundering its oratory, turbulent,
and, surging, roars against my pillow.
- "everything around is Soviet, everything around is mine",
- "they pretend they pay us salary, we pretend we work" (in this order),
- no competition meant exclusively single points of failure in decision making chains of authority, i.e. ossified management structures with no self-correcting loops,
- resource allocation and deallocation by a central planning authority.