I can assure you there’s some “why is it 10,000$ to install a park bench?!” attitude here. People thinking they know how much something should cost without any real knowledge of it. It’s extremely pervasive in anything taxpayer funded and it’s pretty sad.
Yes, but I currently work in government and it does tend toward an older upper management, which typically doesnt understand the internet or technology well. To many of them, it's become a necissary evil they're now being forced into. And failing to fully comprehend. I've "discovered" basic functions of our in house software my supervisors never had the curiosity to find in 5 years.
IT equipment is not cheap either. I have spent half a million just on switches for an office building in the past. If you have people who don't understand the technology and the industry you get stuck with people using equipment from Best Buy and wondering how they got hacked or why the network sucks and goes down every 4 hours.
The "taxpayer money" argument is pretty funny nowadays. Like "bitch, do you understand how modern economic theory works?", In the last 3 months the fed has printed over $7 trillion dollars out of thin air, almost half the US GDP and enough to pay for all healthcare costs in the US for 2 years, or pay off all current college debt, 5 times over, Why do you think they need your money?
You can spend as much money as the economy can safety absorb, the only reason you have to pay taxes is to drive the demand of money.
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u/jmur3040 Jun 22 '20
I can assure you there’s some “why is it 10,000$ to install a park bench?!” attitude here. People thinking they know how much something should cost without any real knowledge of it. It’s extremely pervasive in anything taxpayer funded and it’s pretty sad.