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Congratulations. Your budget is now permanently smaller because your appeals are completely irrelevant to the machine and you get to do less. Forever. Maybe you have to fire some people.

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If you don't need a big budget then yes you should continue onwards with a smaller budget. That's not a surprising conclusion.

I believe the intended meaning was "Now, regardless of any future considerations, your budget is permanently smaller.".

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