> If the scope of your ambition is to push the envelope in astrophysics, you probably already have enough resources at your disposal That's pretty ridiculous.

> If the scope of your ambition is to push the envelope in astrophysics, you probably already have enough resources at your disposal That's pretty ridiculous. It takes a lot of excess financial capacity for a human to even develop such an ambition in the first place. Even if you have that level of privilege, you have to compete for educational resources and social support against people who may have much more privilege than that.