improvidence

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Two key factors in the SVB disaster can’t be overlooked: The incompetence of the bank’s management and the improvidence of its customers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2023

The brig Sophie, of Portland, Me., wallowed for 119 days in Atlantic gales while the sickened French passengers grew more & more scandalized at the improvidence of American seamen.

From Time Magazine Archive

The executors, he found, had acted with "improvidence and waste verging upon gross negligence."

From Time Magazine Archive

Alan Sergeant San Diego Your article "What Are Prisons For?" lays bare the improvidence of our attitude toward criminal justice.

From Time Magazine Archive

It strikes me, in my middle-class solipsism, that there is gross improvidence in some of these arrangements.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich