> 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)
