I don't necessarily "need", I want my aggregate personal equipment to cost a large fraction of, say, my manager's company provided car. The justification is per

I don't necessarily "need", I want my aggregate personal equipment to cost a large fraction of, say, my manager's company provided car. The justification is personal, not analytical. Given a fixed high budget, it doesn't take much common sense to prefer something more useful (e.g. a spare laptop instead of a luxury chair and desk, or remote servers instead of some dangerous SaaS).