This is absolutely not surprising. When I was doing my MSc, I'd often use up about 5000$ just in single-use plastic consumables in a day. There were zero profit

This is absolutely not surprising. When I was doing my MSc, I'd often use up about 5000$ just in single-use plastic consumables in a day. There were zero profit incentives related to my project, it was pure fundamental research. Wet labs are insanely expensive to run.