I swear my company hates saving money

I'm a seasoned engineer, recently joined a new company, $300 million/year revenue, loads of low hanging fruit everywhere.

I suggest some industry standard equipment that would cut labor time spent on rework in half, costs approx. $200k, ROI maybe 3 months.

Company has tons of cash, but since the bucket this capital equipment would come out didn't get appropriated 2 years ago before I started, can't buy it... And whoops too late to add it to next year's budget, so maybe FY28...

The long and short of it is, holistically we'd rather spend $1.6 million in labor over the next 2 years instead of $200k today. I imagine how crazy this scenario would be if it happened in your personal life... like if the ROI of adding solar panels to your house was 3 months, you'd be crazy not to do it.

So when the company says stuff like "we need to think outside the box to save money and reduce costs" I can't help but laugh.