Linux

This is so universally true across domains, I wonder if the collapse of the Career Employee model - motivated mostly by companies, but workers have also had a hand in this - isn't a huge factor in the enshittification of products. In the US, at least.

It really does cross careers. My wife is dealing with someone at work who's making horrible (for the company) decisions for his organization because they buy him short-term benefit and will probably result in a better bonus for him this year. But it's almost guaranteed to be a shit show someone's going to have to clean up in 5 years, but the guy in question doesn't give a fuck about 5 years because his plan is to retire within the next 3. It's a specific interest of a more general issue: nobody expects anymore to be in the same job, and maybe not in the same company, 10 years from today, and companies are are bad about applying consequences over periods longer than a year.

Everybody bitches about the mess the previous person left them, but nobody gets penalized for a bad decision they made 5 years ago. And people aren't stupid; they know this.