• Thrashy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I do lab planning for a living and sometimes I like to play “How Many Houses Could This Instrument Buy?” with my coworkers. Usually it’s something along the lines of 0.1 to 1 houses, but every once in a while we do a process development lab for some biotech firm, and they want to spring for one of those Satorious automated bioreactors. Those things cost “a whole block’s worth of nice houses in a mid-major metro” money.

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      1 year ago

      So like $10 million dollars?

      Nowadays this exercise does more to show how absurd housing prices are than it shows about instrument prices.