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One of the most major points of the movie is that Hammond spared many, many expenses; it's not really a novel observation when the movie shoves it in your face.
In Hammond's defense, the fences do actually work well. However, once Nedry cuts the electricity, they become basically useless. The fences work, but the security system around them doesn't, and there needs to be a backup if the electricity fails.
Right? The sticking point is that Nedry wanted more money, and he compromised the system, to get paid. If he had been paid a better wage he couldn't have been bought as easily by a competitor.
Now, he does mention that he bid that price, so maybe he was in on the scheme from the get-go. But that, again, would be more difficult if you have loyal and better paid employees.
Yeah but systems have to be resilient. The events of the movie (haven't read the book) show that a single point of failure was enough to cause a catastrophe. That's unacceptable in normal circumstances, nevermind an island filled with dangerous predators.
I highly recommend reading the book. It's a great read, more gritty, goes into more detail in many ways, has more focus on corporations being a plague on modern world (very much cyberpunk-adjacent themes), and the best thing is that some (but not all) characters that survived the movie die in the book and vice versa, so it's still very suspenseful even if you've seen the movie a million times.
The second one is a good read too.