Much more than $22K, over the years. It's not so bad if you can buy used and resell later for a decent % of your original cost. But if you buy some of today's mega-buck high end cables - new at or near MSRP - yeah you're gonna take a bath when you resell :(
I particularly like some of my solid-core silver cables (not cheap), but the way today's cables & tweaks are hyperbolically marketed, pseudo-science'd to death, and over-sold these days is...somewhat grotesque.
That said I'm continually amazed how our hobby has this ongoing issue with certain contentious people getting so upset about what SOMEONE ELSE spends on a product - there are other hobbies with far worse patterns that don't seem to have this problem.

