Comment by irrational

I work for a Fortune 100 company, and I've been asking myself this exact question nearly every day for the past 18+ years. The amount of money that is wasted is astonishing. $18,000 for a static html page is so little that it's almost laughable. We think it's crazy, because we have a clue what it actually takes to build the web page. But, the people who pay the bills are not technical and have no clue, so they would happily pay $180,000!