Other things people spend "too much money" on:
- muscle cars, with all the stuff, driven occasionally.
- boats, that don't get taken out much
- gamer x, where x=system or laptop or keyboard or mouse or desk or glasses or mousepad or speakers or ... usually with "> too much RGB"
- children
$48k for something constructive even if ai related? no problem, refreshing even.
One of these things is not like the others. If you don't spend the money on one of them, you can get a visit from government officials that might decide to take that "item" from you. You'd also be a worthless human to spend that money on the other 3 while not on the one.
I have profited richly from my children, but not in a monetary sense.
However much it has cost me monetarily, it has repaid itself ten times over in value to my very soul.
I (probably not obviously) meant the "too much" part, where kids fail to grow/launch when (optional) things are given to them too easily.
I didn't mean food, shelter, medical, education, lego, others-where-required-by-law.