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Your answer is basically "it's expensive because other high end things are expensive, too!". Thats not what the GP was asking. Also a Ferrari is a bizarre comparison. Telescope has about 10 or less moving parts. Ferrari has hundreds, maybe thousands.

A real answer to this would be to break it down by materials vs labor. Not shaming them for being curious and then saying it's high end.




If you think a telescope has 10 or less moving parts, you don’t know what your talking about.




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