Affording a spaceship?

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

That of course completely ignores the fact that owning something very expensive and being obscenely wealthy are quite distinct situations.

In any setting where ships are very expensive, anyone who owns one is either obscenely wealthy or incapable of selling it. Which is itself a WSoD issue with certain settings, where a simple economic analysis will show the best way to make money with a ship is to sell it.