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> That should be one of those Tech culture “laws.”

We already have something:

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

Milton Friedman, Tyranny of the Status Quo

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Thanks for that.

I feel that there is a bit of a difference, though, because that’s really a cynical (and probably accurate) observation on the behavior of bureaucracy, and I feel the temporary fix thing is of a “finer granularity,” and applies to basic human nature.

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