You probably know, if you think about it, that I wasn’t saying there were no expenditures involved. This is just specious.

You said “it cost Google a LOT more than their compensation to make it possible for them to even start working on this project, let alone carrying it forward to completion.” As if Google is groaning under the weight of sacrifices made specifically so these SREs can play in their engineering playground every day. I am saying this is backwards — that there has been no such sacrifice on Google’s part.