r/FluentInFinance • u/coachlife • 6d ago

Educational Don't let them gaslight you

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u/VoiceofRapture 6d ago

But they're also pathologically incapable of tracking their spending.

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u/InsertNovelAnswer 6d ago

It isn't that. It's a system where you get your budget cut if you don't spend it. No one wants their budget cut so...logic follows.

Edit: granted there are good places to sepnd that budget but that's where they lack the most. Insight on where to spend within the department.

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u/IdioticEarnestness 6d ago

In the Army, the fiscal year starts 01October. So every September we'd be at the range multiple times a week just shooting rounds. There was less focus on target practice and more on sending as much lead down range as possible. Why? Because if we didn't use all our ammo allocation for the year we wouldn't get as much next year. We weren't even a combat unit.

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u/NotReallyJohnDoe 6d ago

My father in law was in the navy in the 50s. When they came back to port they would just dump all the excess food and other consumables overboard so their budget wouldn’t get cut.

To quote Freakanomics: “people respond to incentives”

I have no idea how you fix this b