[lordnacho]

This is an accounting problem. If you get your act together and buy a load of new hardware, hire staff to maintain it, there's a definite number attached to it.

If you let your teams get bogged down with crappy hardware and no support, you also pay, but nobody can count where the losses were and what they sum up to.

Like an invisible tax, you end up paying one way or another, but you'll never know how much and whether it was a good trade.