Hired onto a project as a specialist. Funders had hired a project manager also. Project manager wanted to use technology X ( which has long since faded ) instead of well entrenched and dev-hireable technology Y because technology Y had not yet entered the trough of disillusionment and anyone who could honestly say they had managed a technology X project could 10x their hourly. Money was ignorant about this level of detail. PM won, as they do. Whole thing a money pyre.