Ignorant post. What you are paying for is exclusivity....vast expanses of private land where you don't have to compete against other hunters, and where bulls can grow to trophy caliber because the hunting is managed.
Lots of people out there including Cam Hanes, Joe Rogan, Randy Newberg, and any other bad a$$ elk hunter on social media you want to name who go on ranch hunts. It just means private property. East of the Mississippi we call them farms, west of the Mississippi they call them ranches, and the cost of these hunts as well as the wait list is dictated by the caliber of bulls to be had. If you knew anything about the topic you would know that, but it is clear you do not. Yet you have an opinion.....hilarious. Using your logic if you pay a lease to hunt whitetails back east then you are paying someone else to "do the work"... I guess you kill all your deer on public land in Arkansas?