The Debt Metaphor in Programming

If you borrow money from the bank to open up a new branch of your restaurant, ah, and then there's no customers. Well, you still have to pay the bank back, right? Ok. To fix this thing, to get rid of all the interest payment, you would have to spend again 30 days. Because you designed it like crap, like it's very unlikely that you'd be able to really use what's there. And even if you did, it would take time just to figure out how to adapt it. That's why in the us we have this national debt, this deficit, a budget debt. We spend more than we take in in taxes, but our economy