If you tell them their expenses beforehand, they'll budget them in, though.

How do you budget for 216% of your gross revenue?

"We lose money on every deal, but we plan to make it up in volume" was one of the infamous quotes from the dot.com bubble.

Sure. You earn 5k a month. The fine is 10k a month. I'd like to see you "budget that in".

It is hard to "budget in" a expense that is multiple time your earnings. Especially if that expense is growing exponentially each time..

But shows that people still don't understand exponential functions, even on this platform. We are truly doomed.