[pketh]

> Money that could instead be spent money building more schools and paying teachers more.

I get the logic but irl that sounds like a false equivalency to me,

We don’t spend money on ornamentation/whimsy *and* we also don’t spend money on more schools, etc. we simply spend less and get less - but this approach is more palatable in most large organizations/modern-societies with weak leadership/vison.

(Kind of like the old adage that nobody got fired for buying IBM)