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This happens every time. Company does good thing. “But, why didn’t they do 2X good thing?!”

Working for a F500 company, I have tried to use budget surplus to reward open source projects we use. Management looked at me like I had grown an additional head.

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> Management looked at me like I had grown an additional head.

this is my experience, too. they'll gladly take, take, take, take, take, and take some more, but when it comes time to give just a little bit, they balk.

Same for normal people, for example with any paid internet service. They watch 2 hours of youtube every day, but to pay a pittance for YouTube Premium? Unimaginable, how dare they ask for anything for the service. In every thread where it comes up, people act like it's pulling teeth. And also, microtransactions work because of the same reason. People's relationship with paying for things is complicated.

> I have tried to use budget surplus to reward open source projects we use.

"We've never heard of that happening, so no."

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