If the price difference is 2x? Sure.
If the price difference is 50x? No way.
So long as the benefit:cost ratio is still sufficiently high, I don't think anyone gets fired for not scrimping. Better to encourage positive EV behaviour by your employees than to scare them away by firing them for not being perfectly optimal.
Accenture says "yeah totally CEOs will pay a lot for literal nothing"
Tell that to Oracle