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You could kind of use that line of thinking to justify spending on anything.
There is a fad every few years that uses similar thinking to justify spending. Sometimes they work out sometimes they don't. But they never work out as good as the most optimistic predictions.
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Usually, someone extracts genuine value at the expense of everything else IMO. And the enshittification continues apace.
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Not on anything but on some things like “Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM”