So no one will get their checks and those of us still paying in will never be able to prove how much and won’t matter we will never get those checks. Yet they will keep pulling the funds from our checks.
I used to teach ESL to some banking IT people, COBOL programmers whose skills were still in demand half a century after COBOL came out. Because the banking systems written half century ago still work, and when it comes to handling other people’s money, breakages, mistakes and downtime are absolutely not an option.
If Musk really wanted to run government like a business, he’d do like the banks and leave a working system damn well alone.
Of course, he wants to run government like one of his businesses, into the ground like Twitter or soon Tesla.
PS The only bank they knew of implementing newer tech for handling the money was a brand new one with no existing systems the new tech might break.
It took the DOT over 20 years to migrate their port of entry truck tracking system from COBOL to Oracle (god help them). That system is much simpler than social security.
“If it ain’t broke, break it.”
Motto of the Department Of Ultra Cool High Efficiency.
I see what you did there with the acronym. Lol
I’m stealing this. I’ll credit you if I remember. (I won’t… You’ll just be “someone on Lemmy”)
So no one will get their checks and those of us still paying in will never be able to prove how much and won’t matter we will never get those checks. Yet they will keep pulling the funds from our checks.
I used to teach ESL to some banking IT people, COBOL programmers whose skills were still in demand half a century after COBOL came out. Because the banking systems written half century ago still work, and when it comes to handling other people’s money, breakages, mistakes and downtime are absolutely not an option.
If Musk really wanted to run government like a business, he’d do like the banks and leave a working system damn well alone.
Of course, he wants to run government like one of his businesses, into the ground like Twitter or soon Tesla.
PS The only bank they knew of implementing newer tech for handling the money was a brand new one with no existing systems the new tech might break.
Exactly. IT folks know most large legacy businesses run on legacy code. The businesses do change the old code due to the risks.
I believe Elon thinks his team can do it. I believe he is wrong.
It took the DOT over 20 years to migrate their port of entry truck tracking system from COBOL to Oracle (god help them). That system is much simpler than social security.