@amerika @animeirl @mint @pernia

> you already have programmers on staff, and they will not always be engaged in paying projects.

By that logic, you're always going to be spending your time doing something, may as well be scrubbing the floors at a dive bar for minimum wage. You've got the staff you've got, and if something is done ahead of time and under budget, that's the staff can be put to something else.

> Managers like to play this game because it lets them bill clients for having staff.

Managers want to enlarge their fiefdoms, not loan their guys out to a project that some other manager gets credit for "spearheading".