> I easily put in an extra 100 hours in a month. There are around 700 hours in a month. Most people are already "working" (billable/salary/etc) for ~180 of t

> I easily put in an extra 100 hours in a month. There are around 700 hours in a month. Most people are already "working" (billable/salary/etc) for ~180 of those. Eat/sleep/travel/family/friends/life eats up a lot more. Fitting in a extra 100 hours of anything in a single calendar month will be extremely difficult for most people. If you have the spare time and money, I'm presuming you may be younger and not have a family that you have responsibilities towards (nothing wrong with that, and just an assumption). The majority of heads of households I know - even professionals earning decently - would indicate they have competing interests for $5-$10k on discretionary purchases. You went from a 'low rate' of $100/hr to $50/hr in your examples? I get it - $5k isn't a massive crippling amount of money for most western professionals. Most of those professionals would probably want the $10k pimped out version too, and that expense just isn't trivial for most individuals. Larger companies with equipment budgets and whatnot - less of an issue, for sure.