“A lot of money” is subjective, I can see your viewpoint. It does take a good bit of time to save in bitcoin before you can jump straight to node running but just a few 100,000/300,000 丰 channels can get you started in the right direction.
Remember, not your rack, not your stack
People can close the channels.
People can also leave channels open, I’ve personally never had someone close a channel on me, if you take the opportunity to ask another node runner to open a channel with them, 99% of the time they won’t close it on you.
It’s about building the network
