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Not to be argumentative, but tech debt is not about money. It is a term that describes all of the accumulated shortcuts and 'gotta get it dones' that devs/engineers had to use to get stuff out on schedule. And the amount of work that it will take to correct those and bring them in line with best practice.
The only place dollars and cents come into play is in how much it will cost to make up that tech debt, or more usually - to ignore it. It is not directly related.
Sorry man, this is a common industry term and trying to change it to fit your description is not going to work when we all use that term every day to mean a very specific thing.
I like this because it implies the company pays for tech debt in any intelligent way. Instead of just letting things break and fixing them as you go.