[B-Con]

A lot of things are worth paying for. A lot aren't.

The hard thing is knowing which ones are which. You can't see the benefit in advance.

A lot of things aren't worth paying for. A lot of software licenses go completely unused. A lot of conference attendees hang out with friends and learn nothing useful. A lot of modern hardware is spent editing CSS files.

The engineers exaggerate and say everything is useful because they don't want to lose any perks. The accountants exaggerate the other direction because their job is to protect cash flow and they have no clue what's useful.

Budget makers are often stuck in the middle: too far up to know what's practically useful but close enough that they know they need to make some investment.