For that price, I'd want my $300 ant booze delivered via ants. Watching the bottle seemingly scoot itself across the bar counter would probably be far more satisfying than actually drinking the stuff.

Well there isn't much industrialization on this front so of course these things are a luxury, and cost as such.

Before pineapples were able to be cheaply grown and imported so the masses could afford them, they were revered as a treat only reserved for the upper echelon of society. Now, they're just another cheap fruit in the supermarket.