Incidentally, that building maintenance graph showing why an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is also useful for illustrating why poverty is such a drag on the economy - if you barely have the money to survive short term, then you don't have the money to invest into even slightly long term things like maintenance, health or education, which ends up costing you even more in the long run. It's an incredible waste of resources (and that's not even counting the human suffering) and it benefits nobody (except maybe the company granting you the emergency loan you use to repair your car when it finally breaks down, but you might never finish paying off).
Everyone repeats this trope yet when it comes to the lowest of the low margin businesses the only ones that seem to have any staying power are the ones that operate by putting things off until they can't and then going for the minimum viable fix.
