Within companies, this seems inherently challenging because most employees of companies aren't privy to enough information to enumerate the case against, and also it's (theoretically) a collectivist decision.
For example - in one's personal life, one can choose to learn woodworking. We'll ignore the case for for the sake of brevity.
The case against is primarily made of opportunity cost, both of time and money. What could I have done with that time instead of woodworking? What could I have bought?
It's all about your own choice. You know a lot about these things, and you're able to use that information to approach the best course of action.
But if you're an employee of a company that sort of thing is either impossible due to a lack of information, or might just run counter to the company's aims.
You might say "instead of doing this 6 month software project, we should just fire the developers and take a punt on the S&P500 with the savings".
Or "we should focus on other project A". But "other project A" might mean that you end up on a shrinking team and eventually get fired, so you're not going to suggest that.
Or maybe there's some internal project you don't even know exists that could do with some more dev time and would be more profitable. You probably don't even know that exists, though.
For example - in one's personal life, one can choose to learn woodworking. We'll ignore the case for for the sake of brevity.
The case against is primarily made of opportunity cost, both of time and money. What could I have done with that time instead of woodworking? What could I have bought?
It's all about your own choice. You know a lot about these things, and you're able to use that information to approach the best course of action.
But if you're an employee of a company that sort of thing is either impossible due to a lack of information, or might just run counter to the company's aims.
You might say "instead of doing this 6 month software project, we should just fire the developers and take a punt on the S&P500 with the savings".
Or "we should focus on other project A". But "other project A" might mean that you end up on a shrinking team and eventually get fired, so you're not going to suggest that.
Or maybe there's some internal project you don't even know exists that could do with some more dev time and would be more profitable. You probably don't even know that exists, though.