“The only lasting fix for technical debt is for management to empower the IT side of an organization to start saying no to all the requests for shiny new things, and focus on making what an organization already has more robust, more secure and futureproof.”

One could argue that technical debt is really just regular debt. If can see that, then you also will see that federal fiscal and monetary policy are really the long term fix, not IT departments saying “No” which of course they already do.