"While you're trying to save $20/month on your email marketing tool and $50 on cheaper coffee for the office, your competitors will be spending their time and money to acquire your customers" - How if they are wasting their money as where you are saving? Wouldn't it give you more resources to go after their customers?
Mirror pools are dangerous if you have a failing power-supply. All it takes is to lose the wrong two drives together (which are often in the same rack) and you lose a portion of your dataset. You should use mirrored raidz2 sets
That's how the electoral college was supposed to work but it never did from the 2nd election. States voted for their delegates, and the delegates would choose the executive branch. Turns out if the delegates didn't vote the way the state wanted, they didn't seem to get selected for that duty next time. Citizens would have only direct input on legislative representation.