I congratulate you on your success.

Your success is the result of your hard work.

Imagine your job as a media executive depends on expanding your viewing audience.

You cannot proclaim your impotence in the face of empty state coffers after pushing through useless and costly tax breaks for the richest.

It's a kind of mechanistic world that we'd all love to live in where, effectively, it sits very nicely on spreadsheets, everything is numerically expressible, and the amount you spend on something is proportionate to the scale of your success.