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This reminds me of lock manufactures vs The Lockpicking Lawyer. He is able to pick nearly every damn lock out there, yet they have all the design resources and money to hire people like him to make better locks.


I had a failed startup where we warned our customers they were using suppliers without sufficient qualifications, insurance, etc. Nobody wanted the product, even for free. At a system level, they chose to use cowboy tradespeople and cover the risk with "plausible deniability", because the market wouldn't pay them to only use quality.

It's like a Gresham's law - eventually the lowest quality dominates the market, because that's what maximises profit.




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