The image of Jerry Cruncher and his accomplices as contemplative men of leisure on a nighttime fishing jaunt is a delicious, quintessentially Dickensian irony.
As absentee landlord Roman Mars goes on his Power Broker jaunts, there's a real emphasis on the emotional impact often of infrastructure, of architecture, and of living.
Not only is the asking price more than seven times the $20m cost of a jaunt to the ISS, it also requires months of demanding physical and psychological training.