Tech has the absolute worst price gouging of any industry. The profit margins are totally insane.

People complain about Kroger with a 1% margin, if only they knew who was actually bending them over.

Eh, it is more that tech is so cheap that the money saved switching isn’t worth the time spent to retrain the workforce.

There are free alternatives to Microsoft Office, but you would never get your money back using them in a corporate environment, as with Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, people come knowing those things.

The cost of software is overwhelmingly not the cash price.