Moral Debt Accrues Interest

We ship it because it works.

Not because it’s right. Not because it’s fair. Just because it compiles.

Every shortcut, every trade-off, every "we’ll fix that later"—it piles up. Invisible to the eye, but not to the world it touches.

Ethical debt doesn’t show up in your backlog. But it compounds. Quietly. Until it doesn’t.

One day the product goes viral, the harm scales, and no one remembers who made the call.

Just that no one stopped it.