“Yes, I thought of that. The laptops we currently have are cheaper options and every time they fail an employee loses a days worth of work but the company still pays them. In the end it turned out to be more expensive than if we had gone with something like the ThinkPads in my proposal.”
The western Roman empire lasted about a thousand years, right? So I’m guessing they would have gone through many social norms over time and even had different norms depending on geography and class.