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Oh you can know. It's a viewable page within the menu. I'll leave it to you to search up on where.
People need to stop acting like it's some scary thing to know.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend
Don't just open it, see thousands of dollars spent, react like it is some huge expenditure and close it without thinking things through. Don't forget that the account is years old and when you do some simple division it going to come out to $30 a month or some number that is reasonable for you to spend on a hobby that you have spent hundreds to thousands of hours enjoying.
I also pro-rate the value of my games like this. For instance, Helldivers 2: paid $39.99 (€35,76), played 537 hours. That's $0.001 (€0,0012) or 1/10th of a cent per hour of play. Even if I add $2000 (€1.788,61) for the PC I play on that still only comes to $3.79 (€4.24) an hour.
Hard to beat that price per hour of entertainment.
My Steam spend over the lifetime of my account comes to $25 (€27,97) a month which is a decent monthly entertainment cost. Of course that doesn't account for additional spending on other entertainment but putting the total spent amount in perspective is definitely good to do, so thanks for pointing that out for those who need it.
Edit: added € costs
One could probably also factor in hardware costs. But over years it may not be as bad as suspected like you're expressing.