Personal anecdata vastly preferred
If you stitch a tear early, when it’s small, you save yourself the work of having to stitch a larger tear.
Why do you think there are so many incentive structures not designed with that in mind?
Because it’s better business to sell you a replacement pair of socks than sell you a needle and thread.
I mean for the business or organization or social policy itself?
The former. A business would rather sell more now and spend more later.
It’s kind of called “planned obsolescence” now. It’s better to have sold you a pair of socks that last a year so I can sell you another pair next year. Selling you a needle and thread to repair that sock and get, say, three years of use out of them “cheats” me of 2/3 of my potential revenue.
Same thing applies to pretty much everything we buy these days.
On the other hand, it’s waaaay better for consumers (and society, and the environment) to repair those socks: it is less waste and far less effort.
Unfortunately, most Western democracies are corrupt enough to be beholden to corporate interests over social interests, so social policy tends to permit this kind of behavior.
I mean more from the organizational perpsective? It seems like there is little way to constrain the get credit now individually at the organization’s laterperil cycle
If you don’t fix that right now it’s going to get way worse. The paint scratch I got last summer on my car is now a rusty hole. I wish I would’ve taken care of it when it happened.
What did you make of it atthe time? How did you discount that risk to the extent you were aware of it ?
I was just giving an example. It didn’t really happen. I guess I misunderstood the question. All the best.
I’d always overstock myself.
Back in the day part of my job was to write reports in the field. Always carried two pens on me, kept another in the glove compartment, and more in the locker at work.
Always kept the vehicle and my personal bag fully stocked.
Proper prior planning prevents piss poor performance.*
*Stolen from an old cop show.
Enormous believer i having 2 of shit for home/work or whatever your enumerated major contexts are.
As Above,so Below
It’s the same as “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Fixing a problem early is less expensive than fixing it later.
