[SilverSlash]

> I once was asked to estimate how much would it cost to change one (static) website's scrollbar color from default to yellow. The quote for that change alone, perhaps 10 LOC change implemented by someone in India, was 3000 euros.

This is absolutely insane and, quite honestly, hard to believe.

[kube-system]

If you ever dealt with any projects at bloated Fortune 500s, it's not really that hard to believe.

Take five people at $200 an hour and drag them into three meetings. There's 3000 bucks right there.

Or, take one consultant and buy them the last minute plane ticket, to write 10 lines of code, at a customer who insists that everything be done on-site.

There's a whole lot of ways that a bloated company can blow $3000 really quickly.

[fragmede]

Welcome to corporate life.

You need sign offs, and translations - wait but isn't it just the scroll bar color? Yes but the color needs to fit in with the corporate colorscheme, so now we have to pull in the design team, and they're in Poland.