I&#x27;m with you...I can see exactly how this can happen.<p>Unfortunately the only thing that can solve the apathetic board and executive management problem(who only see dollar signs) is the actuality, or realistic possibility, of significant financial loss, or loss of their personal freedom(prison) due to the negligence of the system. And a $10 Mil fine for a fault in something that you make $100 Mil off of is not significant. That&#x27;s $90 Mil profit in their eyes. And they probably get to write it off.<p>Even more unfortunate, is that, in the situation that this happens, the &quot;engineers responsible&quot; will be fired, and the executives will resign with a nice golden parachute, and go on to do the same thing somewhere else.<p>But then you have the company that does do it right, spend the time, and the money to make a truly redundant, fault-tolerant system. But, they come in at a price point 20% higher than their competitor, who doesn&#x27;t. Which company survives and which doesn&#x27;t?<p>Sad, but, unfortunately the way it is. I don&#x27;t know a practical solution either.