User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 2: Finding machines that are genuinely underrated/@comment-25770073-20171226150543/@comment-9751413-20171226154652

There is never an issue with people having a lot of money, or spending a lot of money. That's capitalism. The issue people have with it is when people gloat about having/spending a lot of money and try to say "I'm better than you because I can outspend you". Most of the time, more money will help you do better in competition - look at Mercedes and Ferrari in F1. They spent the big money and dominated the last season. But in their case, they never came out and said "look how much money we've spent", they just let the other teams say it for them. With Rapid, the rich team is saying "we've got the money" and rubbing it in everyone's faces - such as the comment about gold because we can. Sayings like that make it very easy for people to hate you, and want to see a cheaper robot like Nuts defeat it comically. There's nothing wrong with spending a large amount of money on a robot, but don't go out there and boast about it.