The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.
When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.
I'm sure there are some people who still think I'm too much of a nice guy to be a manager but I'm certain that's not an issue.
For a while, I Photoshopped too much. When you first learn what you can do, you really go overboard sometimes.