Or they just have lots of money and a hobby. Someone else might blow $48K to get an old Cessna and go have fun flying around. Not everything needs to have a purpose.

A self-described "broke grad student [who has] been saving up for this for years."

Risking their own money and time instead of leveraging a PowerPoint to hire other peoples' labor with other peoples' money. I can respect that.

You read that line wrong.