If my public middle school could do that in some back room closet it can’t be that bad.
For reference in us costs and spend your public stipend is less than my city spends per person on homeless folks and half of minimum wage. I think we’re taking different scales of money.
These kinds of projects are open to the top 5-10% of earners in the us so 15million or so folks could fund this but only 1-2 actually do it.
We had one in our middle school. Somehow they hired some genius engineer and he took over the basement and built out the electron microscope, radio station and a whole bunch of other cool stuff. It’s definitely doable and repeatable
I used to think the same thing but then I joined a team where there were lots of like minded folks of the same age and it turns out it is possible. There are multiple folks on my team that I’d hang out with on my off time although some of the ones I actually hung out a lot with have moved on recently.
It’s worth noting that it took a few years to integrate into the team which is longer than most folks stay at any job
Ha my work absolutely would do something that pointless while paying everyone 50$+ an hour to do it. These are the skills you need to succeed at big inefficient corporations