Comment by tejohnso

You're talking about an end user not being able to afford a luxury item.

The concern is about elite level researchers no longer being able to move the industry forward in a public way, and leaving potentially all major discoveries in private hands going forward.

Possible worst case scenario in your case, you personally miss out on a luxury item.

Possible worst case scenario in the topic case, an AI company controls the only intelligence that discovers and understands the most powerful tools / physics we know of.