I don’t mind this philosophy, but in aggregate I think very slow applications that are cumbersome and widely deployed have cost humanity many human lifetimes because a handful of developers were not able (or not given the opportunity) to optimise them even a little.
I am aware that capitalism essentially dictates externalising cost as much as possible, but with software- much for the same reason capitalism loves it (a copy is cheap and can be sold at full price despite being constructed just once) means that these externalities can scale exponentially.
Teams in particular is an outlier as in most cases it is essentially forced on people.
It doesn't dictate externalising cost as much as possible unless you have a very short-term view.
Short-term view businesses get eaten pretty quickly in a free capitalist system.
People forget that half of capitalism's advantage is the "creative destruction" part - if businesses are allowed to fail, capitalism works well and creates net value.
I am aware that capitalism essentially dictates externalising cost as much as possible, but with software- much for the same reason capitalism loves it (a copy is cheap and can be sold at full price despite being constructed just once) means that these externalities can scale exponentially.
Teams in particular is an outlier as in most cases it is essentially forced on people.