For seven thousand dollars you can get a computer that will make a saint weep (you can get something about 99% as good for like two grand if you build it yourself or four if you bought it prebuilt). Computers are insanely cheap joy boxes when compared to nearly every other form of entertainment - for that cost you're getting a piece of hardware that will be nearly top-of-the-line for three years or so now-a-days, and probably passably performant for a decade. So I entirely agree that, working in a field where video games are seen as a reasonable and normal past-time, the cost of renting skies for a weekend can seem outrageous.

Money is freaking weird - food and essentials are also a complicating factor here though. I like to eat well so my food budget is about 150$/week which is about three times as high (for two of us) as my parents paid for three of us.