Mechanism

The Capture of Maintenance

Narrates itself as innovation, improvement, upgrade, efficiency.

“Why does nobody notice what I do until I stop doing it?”

You might be inside it if

Does the work that keeps things running get less recognition than the work that launches new things?
Is maintenance only discussed when it fails?
Would the system collapse without the maintenance that goes unacknowledged?
Is 'innovation' being used to justify neglecting what already exists?

Hard to see because maintenance doesn't look like progress — it looks like the same work repeated, which makes it easy to undervalue until it fails.