One reason:
People with a BUSINESS background are making TECHNOLOGY decisions.
What an MBA knows about the details, unique problems, and all incumbent to bringing a piece of hardware or software to market one could print on a postage stamp and still have ample room to write a best seller.
The attitude is here's so much money, so much time, so much resources now MAKE it happen. There's no consulting or involving people knowledgeable in technology in the business decisions. It's comparable to telling a plumber here's one hundred dollars and one hour now put in a kitchen sink.
I think the worst example of such an attitude is the game software companies: These places are pressure cookers however the pressures aren't the traditional managerial types breathing down someone's neck. It's a LOT more subtle. It's a company cheerleading, rahh rahh approach amounting to a contest of who can volunteer the most uncompensated overtime and spend the biggest chunk of
their lives locked in a cage at the company.
But of course management is going to seek out the lowest cost inputs. IT, programming, and tech nowadays is looked on with the same contempt as janitorial services. It's a dirty messy job and we don't want to do it but we want to pay someone as cheap as possible to.
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