"The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."
—
Parkinson’s Law of Triviality
This is the basis of the Bike Shed Effect:
You can go in to the board of directors and get approval for building a multi-million or even billion dollar atomic power plant, but if you want to build a bike shed you will be tangled up in endless discussions.
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