I’m sympathetic to the point you’re making – it wouldn’t be shocking for a moderately sized well-to-do family to have a bunch of expensive gear for some hobby –

I’m sympathetic to the point you’re making – it wouldn’t be shocking for a moderately sized well-to-do family to have a bunch of expensive gear for some hobby – but I think you’re underestimating people’s abilities to do things on a budget. I think ski equipment could reasonably come to less than $1k pp, for example.