Relax, the ticket isn’t $4,999 because you’re broke, it’s pre‑success tax on your inevitable successful exit. They do see your YCombinator IP after all. Or...open the site in Lynx on an old ThinkPad. The fare will drop by half.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/17/vladimir-putin...
But this is our future boring dystopia. We're not going to get the post-scarcity future from Star Trek but the techno-feudal hellscape of cyberpunk novels. Hooray technology!