Polo invades Poland

Our moving into these offices a year and a half ago coincided with Polo agreeing to come on board and work for us. I had somehow convinced him that he could build the sort of engineering team that he enjoys working with, starting with next to nothing. Initially, he and I shared a massive office, and the engineering staff were at the other end of the floor, squeezed into ill-fitting offices. This worked well as Polo found his feet, taking an hour or two of my time each day.
Polo's plan was to start tearing down walls until he had the space to triple the size of the team. At the time, without the possibility of expansion, that meant somehow taking over MadDog's office - the once nearest the new open-plan area. Joining the offices was referred to as breaking down the Berlin walls (or the unification of Germany), and expanding was referred to as invading Poland. This also meant that he and I had to abandon our paradise, and it was split into two offices far too small to do anything with. Think of it as the former Yugoslavia. I think we had seven or eight people in there for the day once, talking strategy. Some didn't want to join the company long term.
Anyway, Polo built his team, and I built mine, and he demanded the right to sit in the middle of his so as not to lose sight of reality. He now has Gabriel to do that, and either Bubble or FO has finally convinced him, in a bid to kill off MadDog, that he take over that office.
Given that MadDog was in the office for all of a few days recently, I wonder if he even knows about the change in circumstances. Admittedly, it is a little silly that he spends so little time here, and yet takes up a well-appointed office with its own meeting space, etc. But then, we don't have a space issue at the moment - in fact, Polo has been getting rid of contractors recently, leaving enough space for visitors from the other office. However, I know what the purpose of those visits is - Bubble thinks it makes good sense to use the cheaper resources there to do the work of the engineering team here. That means that MadDog might be spending his life there, which works for him personally, but makes no sense otherwise. Winding down the resourcing makes us less capable of achieving the goals set, it doesn't just make it cheaper to not achieve them. False economies. I think I've touched on that before. If you put an accountant in charge of anyting, it always comes back to money - how much will it cost us to get it done? - how much can I save if I don't do it?
Money doesn't solve problems; it causes them. It worries me that there are people who think that the world is a capitalistic paradise where time is money and time can be bought, etc. But don't get me started. Some folk around here are artificially inflated enough. The next thing you know, people will have to carry their egos around in wheelbarrows.