Exactly. SSD storage alone can cost $5,000+. A nice camera is around $2,000 and lenses around $1,500 each.
And we edit on two M1 Ultra Mac Studios, as well as M1 Max MacBook Pros, all fully-optioned.
People vastly underestimate the time and expense involved with “just posting videos to YouTube.”
(If it’s such easy money, why aren’t they doing it…)