moon_shots

  As long as it worked, who cares?

That statement is a declaration of assent that you find the outcome acceptable.

It doesn’t examine the manner of resource usage, and the returned benefits for each cost.

In one case, they built a car and a garage to fix many cars in.

In the other case, they built a car off some value and drove it off a cliff. For the price, could we not have also obtained a matching garage?