Makes me think of Civilization, the game, somehow (which I used to spend far too much time playing and now have officially Given Up). You start money constraine

Makes me think of Civilization, the game, somehow (which I used to spend far too much time playing and now have officially Given Up). You start money constrained, but by the endgame there's typically so much cash floating around that it ceases to have the same meaning. So what is the person buying here? An anecdote; except that the better the anecdote comes across the more that it's an investment too. Seems like madness to me, but then I am very much not at the silly money stage. Money still means shelter, rather than a way to keep score.