

My job offers quarterly team building budgets to each department so we can go out to dinner or whatever during work hours. I think this is preferable to surprise events since people might have things they need/want to get done and it would be annoying to spring this on people without prior notice. We don’t use it every quarter but it’s still nice to get away every now and then even though I don’t always enjoy the social aspect of it.
In addition to this, the voltage drop from one end of the wire to the other would probably make a 5V input useless to begin with when you only get 1.5V out on the other end. Higher input voltage doesn’t suffer quite as badly while also helping to keep the current low like you mentioned.