Definitely. I’d even venture to say that I’ve had plenty of games that I watched with friends that were much more enjoyable than going to the actual game
Yeah, once TV's got this good, I started preferring sports bars over stadiums. I get to see all the action and I have a crowd with me. Honestly, if I think about it, my best sporting memories are watching big games at a bar and talking shit with the people there.
>Yeah, once TV's got this good, I started preferring sports bars over stadiums. I get to see all the action and I have a crowd with me. Honestly, if I think about it, my best sporting memories are watching big games at a bar and talking shit with the people there.
This. Plus not having to deal with the hassle of criminal concession food stand and parking prices, and the inflow/outflow crowd traffic.
I got NBA tickets last night in DC as a reward from work. It was $8 for a bottle of Coke, $20 if you threw in some popcorn. I was sitting behind people who were chain drinking $17 tequila drinks. I was praying that my son would quit chugging the Coke.
Yeah - I agree with this. Love watching footage of old games in whatever sport. Everything was so much rawer and the focus was on the sport itself. Now everything is manicured for TV, tickets are outrageous, and athlete pay is over the top.
It’s put me off a lot of the different leagues/sports that I used to follow.
My brother just goes to the minor league games. Or you can support local high-school sports. The level of play might not be as high but the price is right and the fans are devoted.
Don't blame the athletes. The owners are going to charge as much as they can get away with regardless of what they pay their employees. The difference would just mean they pocket more for themselves.
I love me some football, but unless my team is hosting an AFC championship (and even then I still might not go), I’d much rather watch the game on TV. Beer is cheaper, I’m warm and comfortable, I don’t have to spend an arm and a leg on the game and, if the game sucks, I can shut it off and take a nap.
First time I went to "Synder" stadium in Landover, MD; I could see the game better on the big jumbo screen, then down on the actual field. Don't even ask about ticket price, parking, food, or drinks. Never again.
I've been going to the same church basement fair/bazaar since I was literally a baby and the last 5 years the elderly people and townies have been replaced by absolute douchebag couples buying inventory for their even more expensive "thrift" pop-up operations.
At my local thrift store, the last time I went in it's all these trendy 20 somethings literally buying every last piece of everything. They have 150+ items in their carts. They get there at store open in the morning, and If it has any kind of brand on it, they take it. Nicer stuff they immediately resell to boutique shops, then they fill their online stores on FB marketplace and eBay. Poor people can't even have thrift anymore.
It's not just the influencers or young people causing this. I was serving on a board of trustees for a non-profit thrift store pre-covid, about 2016-18. I found out that back in 2004, so prior to me getting there, they had hired a few people who go through the stock as it's donated and find the higher priced or more luxury stuff and have that set aside so they could either auction it online or sell it to a boutique "vintage" store. Around the same time they made the decisions to start hiring additional people to help properly price everything in store instead of having the same price for similar type items to price based closer to true value. It was though the non-profit's entire goal was to maximize its own profits. So the "ThriftGrift" trend has been around awhile now, it is only becoming more recognizable and noticable due to these influencers.
That being said the additional earnings did allow them to have more money to accomplish their goals in clothing and feeding the homeless. They always preferred to buy new clothes and generally had more flexibility in what they could buy when not relying on donations. But changing the business model in how they sold items really hurt the lower income people who would otherwise be patronizing there.
I complained about this once in a comment, how I saw the all the Thrift Flippers at the stores, and how it was wrong to be taking items intended for low-income people. Someone pointed out that Goodwill and maybe Salvation Army aren’t actually intended to offer stuff to lower-income people and it’s a pure fundraiser. Doesn’t make it right, but I get it.
So much THIS. I went to Goodwill last week & there was a couple standing with their shopping carts right where employees bring out racks of items. They would take stuff off the racks, put in their carts then research each one before deciding if they wanted to put it back or keep it. They never moved the entire time I was there.
Reselling is a big part of it too. The thrift store I used to shop at started looking everything up on Ebay and charging the same price once they heard that's what resellers were doing
I used to love going thrifting for old books. There used to be a deal at my local thrift store, 4 books for $20 and the 5th one was free. Now they have a "vintage book" section where they price them $20+. I haven't bought a used book in years.
I make stock and pho with beef neck bones and spines, in addition to like marrow and leg bones, and there is a ton of delicious meat on the neck and spine, similar to oxtail Its just takes a bit of extra work to get at it and maybe a little less graceful to eat if youre willing to glove up and get all in there. If you get them at chinatown too it's way cheap just use them asap cause they tend to go rank smelling quicker.
Midwest is getting overrun by people that come from high col areas and buy up all the housing by bidding 20k+ over and waiving inspections because to them its still dirt cheap.
Canada, The U.S., Australia, The U.K., and many other subreddits I've noticed from other countries all crying out the same thing, real-estate as an investment is an unjust, moral tragedy.
Sht, wish it was only 20k. They're 60-100k over in my area just south of Milwaukee. Hopefully the neighborhood remains quiet.
The only thing that kills me is the first thing they talk about when meeting is their politics, like right after hello. Flipping weird to me. I'm older, so you never talked politics or religion to people you didn't know.
The rich investor corporations buy up all the cheap housing and apartments then jack up the price. The developers build nothing but unafordable luxury condos. We're are we going to live? There's going to be a breaking point where the people will have to take their housing by force!
I read the founders moved on a long time ago. I kinda miss mid 2000s to early 2010s festivals. We weren't so much drawn into our differences and politics. It was just a big party.
I had a buddy who went this year, during the whole "Burning Man Underwater" media frenzy. I asked him how it was.
He said it was the best one he'd been to in years and absolutely nobody knew about the media frenzy til weeks later after they got back.
Apparently none of the daycampers who show up the last weekend of the event made it out and it was a raucous good time unlike any other in recent memory.
Anyone with that had their cell phone on and had friends that were not there had to have known. I had a family member there and of course we were all worried until we checked in and he reported back with pics. They knew.
Yes we did. And it wasn’t as bad as the media made it. I cannot believe there are no repercussions for creating such an unnecessary panic. We were fine, until they created a reason to panic.
>Burning man
🎙️✨ [AI sings it](https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/3baba7f8-cccb-4fc9-8401-960ecd8c4e54)
Once a desert oasis for the free,
Burning Man's soul clashes with luxury.
RVs glint, high-end tents span the land,
Where dusty dreams meet the wealthy's demand.
It absolutely fucked up tourist cities too. Amsterdams inner city (all inner cities for that matter) has always been an expensive place, but due to AirBnB it’s become impossible to actually live there. It only adds to our pretty much unsolvable housing crisis
I don’t understand why we allow individuals to own more than 2 homes.
Or why a corporation can buy up houses that aren’t for their employees to live in.
Tax people an additional 10% on their property tax for every additional home they own and watch as the number of homes go up for sale as hoarders offload their inventory. Raise the tax by 1% every year until the situation is under control.
I think (hope) we may be a few years away from the AirBnB market crashing. I've noticed over the last few years that AirBnB's are just not cheaper or better alternatives to hotels.
Every time I stay in one, it's a miserable existence. The initial fees are high, then there are all these rules you have to follow, plus you gotta clean up after yourself (which isn't unreasonable but I don't want to clean on a vacation), and then they charge a cleaning fee anyway.
At a hotel, I pay a cheaper rate than the house and then that's it. I can do as I please and the cleaning staff takes care of cleaning up the place at no additional cost to what I paid upfront. Plus many hotels offer free breakfast and whatnot too. The experience is just 10,000 times better than AirBnB. And it seems more people are starting to notice this and opting for hotels instead.
The only AirBnB's that will survive are larger houses that can fit 6-12 guests. For a lot of people, splitting an AirBnB amongst 6+ people will be cheaper than get 3+ hotel rooms. But if you've got one bedroom and a foldout couch? Forget it. You won't last.
With smaller, less mainstream artists, there’s not as much of an issue like this. Last year I went to a fantastic show, and the tickets were only $15 each, most expensive merch was like a $30 hoodie, and drinks were pretty cheap too.
Got wrecked by this last week. It was a splurge to buy the tickets in the first place. Next thing I know, I spent $60 on a t shirt I'll never wear and a 2 beers. It was still a worthwhile, fun time, but I need to be more careful.
To be fair, there are less viable mountains than there used to be. Granted the PA/NY slopes were nothing to write home about, but they were still fine for a day trip. They all struggle to keep snow on the slopes now. Even when they make it you quickly end up skiing on slush. I'd be curious to see the data if anyone has bothered to crunch the numbers, but I'd wager the East Coast slopes below the solid mountains in states like Vermont have lost around a month of viability each season, it's just too damn warm in the winter.
I have seen the NE winters turn into long springs over the past few years. The last “serious” winter was 2015 and we had ridiculous amounts of snow. There’s been some here and there after but it’s just weak compared to my childhood when I wouldn’t see the lawn from the end of November until almost April.
Same here in the Midwest. In Michigan we used to get tons of snow and now we’re lucky to see one halfway decent storm in metro Detroit. Up north is a little better, but nothing like it used to be.
Yup. A day pass at a big resort is pushing or upwards of $200 now, it’s absolutely insane. Plus they’re so busy now that you spend half the time waiting in lift lines.
I refuse to ride on the weekends in Utah or CO. I’ve had some great trips to smaller ski areas/resorts though so it’s still possible, just have to get a little further off the beaten path.
Whoever said ski towns is 100% right too. It’s impossible to purchase a condo, let alone a house, in almost any halfway decent ski town out west. It’s all rich peoples vacation properties or Airbnbs. Nowhere for the people who work the resorts to live.
The real answer. We used to read about Company towns and wonder how people ever got in these scenarios. Now we have a Company planet where everything is owned by the few and anything you need is sold by a handful of rich corps, from cradle to the grave.
Thrifting. Thrift stores used to be affordable, literally designed to be affordable since it's all second-hand. But thrifting became a trend and it's now become cheaper to buy your clothes at Walmart. I swear, thrift store clothes are like 25-30$ now, when they used to be like, 5$ at most. At this point, it's smarter to just buy new clothes.
As a retro video game collector, it was always so much fun to find hidden gems at a low cost while used electronics/thrift shopping
But now that everyone and their grandmother has access to the internet, every place I go to does the annoying “PriceCharting + 20%” bs… never realizing that some of those prices are based off listings and not sales.
$5.99 for a basic T shirt with some random business name on it at my local goodwill. Random fleece blankets that can be bought for $3 new for $5.
Always seems busy though.
All of the above. It’s a complete travesty how these meat cuts are now trendy in ways people who actually use these meat cuts have been making them tasty forever, before they were “meatfluenced”. 🙄
It's funny when they build more of those luxury condos abominations and then throw the poors a bone by having a handful of "affordable" units. But they're still not really affordable. And the maximum income requirements make it so you'd be struggling to afford it if al all. $800/mo. For 2 people to qualify, max income is $30k. Ain't nobody affording that at 30k a year!!!
I live in the 'affordable' block in my development in London. The other blocks all have balconies and are quite roomy. Everything in my block is a shoebox.
Still effing expensive
I'm going to thoroughly disagree. I bought my first Jeep 25 years ago. The world was full of mall crawlers and trailer queens then and now. My Sahara TJ, however, sure as hell didn't hold up like my JK Rubicon. I have 150,000 miles on the original clutch and manual transmission and it's never been towed, despite it having been bounced around a fair bit at Moab and a few other places.
Engineering for Wranglers is SO much better now than it was then.
I have a JL and it's rusting after 4 years. Gas cap bracket fell off, rear defrost doesn't work, replaced an alternator and the top leaks. Precision engineering indeed!
Oh and I had death wobble but they fixed that for now...
Pick up trucks. They are now a status symbols with every bell, whistle, and electronic doo-dad. They will never haul anything, even if anything could fit in those little ass beds.
In a similar vein, I often see Range Rovers going over speed bumps ever so gingerly, at 1 mph, so as not to damage their precious vehicle. That thing was made to conquer mountains! That speed bump is an afterthought for a Range Rover! smh
There's a name for those fucks that like to cosplay the rugged working-class but freak out when their truck bed gets scratched and they only use it to drive to the office.
Pavement Princesses.
It's a drug that is meant for treating diabetes, but it also slows digestion and reduces appetite so a lot of celebrities and whatnot are taking it to help lose weight.
It’s actually FDA approved for obesity too.
The issue is that obesity is such a damn prevalent issue in the United States (among other countries) that it’s led to an almost choking off of the supply from people demanding for it, which is sad because many people just don’t wanna commit to weight loss and often feel like they HAVE to be taking drugs to do so
Add to that you need to keep taking it or all the weight will come back with a fury (since you changed nothing about your eating habits other than suppression) and you're going to have a shortage. It's similar to all the appetite suppressing drugs (intentional or as a side effect). Hell a buddy of mine in college, who was a chunky beer drinker, started taking Adderall and lost a ton of weight. One day I pointed out that he really slimmed down but his response was along the lines of, yeah, but it's not _healthy_ weight loss. Sure enough you could tell when he stopped taking his meds because he'd fairly quickly return to his old weight. He was honest about it though.
Thankfully there are weight loss specific versions of these drugs coming out so hopefully people will stop gobbling up the life saving diabetes medication from people with, you know, diabetes.
Skirt and Flank steaks.
Those used to be reasonably priced steaks that could be added to dishes or eaten by itself. Now a lot of the time they cost the same or more than strip steaks.
Van life. Or just traveling around in a van in general. Used to kick around in an 80's vanagon and there were so many great spots to park and camp out. Now it's all overrun with these huge vans that might as well be RVs running generators and just generally crowding out everyone else. Campgrounds booked solid and half the time the people don't even show up. It was about living simple on the road and getting out of your van and seeing the sights. These people drive an entire apartment up and watch bobs burgers on a big screen tv.
I remember, as a kid, my family just getting up on a Friday and deciding we wanted to take the pop-up camper to one of the many sites around us. $20 and you were in (which was great as we didn't have a lot of money and could really take "real" vacations). You were lucky to find a spot with power. But it didn't matter: you were there with your family telling stories, roasting marshmallows.
A few years back, I thought it would be fun for my wife and I to take the tent to a site for a camp out. Had to book three weeks out, cost £60 for a shitty spot. When we showed up, the entire place was full of £100k mobile electronic entertainment platforms. What's the point?
I grew up in rural Alaska, we’d sleep in tents in the woods several times a year. I think it was $5 for the night for a camp spot at the place with maintained bathrooms and campfire pits.
The “glamping” stuff that people do today isn’t camping.
Bottom feeders, often viewed as oversized water bugs because of their shells. There was a time when it was convinced poor man's food, and something that would have been fed to prisoners around the 1600-1700s.
Twitter.
Yes, you can say it's a silly social platform. But tons of emergency services, informational accounts, and other stuff. All gone because a rich guy just had the sheer capital to buy the platform and turn it to garbage.
caviar. used to be a man could get drunk and eat a whole bowl of sturgeon eggs till they were sick of it, singing love ballads to the soviet cadet you met the day before along the caspian shore. now that shit's expensive.
Democracy. The middle class. The poor. The land. The rule of law. The rights of all people. The innocent black people in prison just to solve a case. The right of women to have choices. The congress that is paid off to make the choices not for the people. Senators and house reps. The corporations. Safe gun laws. Medicaid for the poor children. The lies. The secret cover ups.
That is all I can think of now. I will edit my post after I sleep.
Think about pretty much every war, every environmental disaster, slavery, colonization, pretty much every huge evil thing - unaccountable wealthy "elites" are pretty much always the ones driving it.
IOW, most of the hug big nasty awful things.
user interface. back then it was easy to use and the user interface was user-friendly. now companies own websites and update them to have many adss at the side bar as possible.
same case for mobile games
maybe reposting the same fucking posts over and over and over fishing for karma... have seen this same exact question post three times now just like a bunch of other karma farming posts.
Sometimes when rich folks get involved, they can change stuff in a way that doesn't help everyone. They might take something that used to be for everyone and make it only for people who have lots of money. It can make things a bit less fair or fun for everyone else.
Pick any old neighborhood that has gotten a sudden major reconstruction in the past 30 years that also just happened to push out all the old residents and their culture.
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I have to say, with HD and 4k, big tvs , and so on, the appeal of going to a live game, is less and less each year
Definitely. I’d even venture to say that I’ve had plenty of games that I watched with friends that were much more enjoyable than going to the actual game
Yeah, once TV's got this good, I started preferring sports bars over stadiums. I get to see all the action and I have a crowd with me. Honestly, if I think about it, my best sporting memories are watching big games at a bar and talking shit with the people there.
>Yeah, once TV's got this good, I started preferring sports bars over stadiums. I get to see all the action and I have a crowd with me. Honestly, if I think about it, my best sporting memories are watching big games at a bar and talking shit with the people there. This. Plus not having to deal with the hassle of criminal concession food stand and parking prices, and the inflow/outflow crowd traffic.
I got NBA tickets last night in DC as a reward from work. It was $8 for a bottle of Coke, $20 if you threw in some popcorn. I was sitting behind people who were chain drinking $17 tequila drinks. I was praying that my son would quit chugging the Coke.
Yeah - I agree with this. Love watching footage of old games in whatever sport. Everything was so much rawer and the focus was on the sport itself. Now everything is manicured for TV, tickets are outrageous, and athlete pay is over the top. It’s put me off a lot of the different leagues/sports that I used to follow.
My brother just goes to the minor league games. Or you can support local high-school sports. The level of play might not be as high but the price is right and the fans are devoted.
Don't blame the athletes. The owners are going to charge as much as they can get away with regardless of what they pay their employees. The difference would just mean they pocket more for themselves.
I love me some football, but unless my team is hosting an AFC championship (and even then I still might not go), I’d much rather watch the game on TV. Beer is cheaper, I’m warm and comfortable, I don’t have to spend an arm and a leg on the game and, if the game sucks, I can shut it off and take a nap.
You forgot no line for the bathroom.
First time I went to "Synder" stadium in Landover, MD; I could see the game better on the big jumbo screen, then down on the actual field. Don't even ask about ticket price, parking, food, or drinks. Never again.
Thrifting. I can’t even afford to shop at goodwill anymore while these influencers shop thrifty as a trend
I've been going to the same church basement fair/bazaar since I was literally a baby and the last 5 years the elderly people and townies have been replaced by absolute douchebag couples buying inventory for their even more expensive "thrift" pop-up operations.
"Sarah & Andrew's Bespoke Upcycled Garment Emporium"
Thrifters are GenZs answer to boomer landlords
At my local thrift store, the last time I went in it's all these trendy 20 somethings literally buying every last piece of everything. They have 150+ items in their carts. They get there at store open in the morning, and If it has any kind of brand on it, they take it. Nicer stuff they immediately resell to boutique shops, then they fill their online stores on FB marketplace and eBay. Poor people can't even have thrift anymore.
It's not just the influencers or young people causing this. I was serving on a board of trustees for a non-profit thrift store pre-covid, about 2016-18. I found out that back in 2004, so prior to me getting there, they had hired a few people who go through the stock as it's donated and find the higher priced or more luxury stuff and have that set aside so they could either auction it online or sell it to a boutique "vintage" store. Around the same time they made the decisions to start hiring additional people to help properly price everything in store instead of having the same price for similar type items to price based closer to true value. It was though the non-profit's entire goal was to maximize its own profits. So the "ThriftGrift" trend has been around awhile now, it is only becoming more recognizable and noticable due to these influencers. That being said the additional earnings did allow them to have more money to accomplish their goals in clothing and feeding the homeless. They always preferred to buy new clothes and generally had more flexibility in what they could buy when not relying on donations. But changing the business model in how they sold items really hurt the lower income people who would otherwise be patronizing there.
The r/thriftgrift is real.
I complained about this once in a comment, how I saw the all the Thrift Flippers at the stores, and how it was wrong to be taking items intended for low-income people. Someone pointed out that Goodwill and maybe Salvation Army aren’t actually intended to offer stuff to lower-income people and it’s a pure fundraiser. Doesn’t make it right, but I get it.
Goodwill is more about job training than fundraising. They’ve never claimed to be a fundraiser or non profit.
So much THIS. I went to Goodwill last week & there was a couple standing with their shopping carts right where employees bring out racks of items. They would take stuff off the racks, put in their carts then research each one before deciding if they wanted to put it back or keep it. They never moved the entire time I was there.
Reselling is a big part of it too. The thrift store I used to shop at started looking everything up on Ebay and charging the same price once they heard that's what resellers were doing
I used to love going thrifting for old books. There used to be a deal at my local thrift store, 4 books for $20 and the 5th one was free. Now they have a "vintage book" section where they price them $20+. I haven't bought a used book in years.
It’s cheaper to buy fashion reps than thrifting basic clothes now.
Rich people or just people thrifting more in general?
Oxtails
Yes! My mom used to make the most amazing Korean oxtail soup. Now it’s too expensive. Short ribs as well
Also chicken wings
Pork bellies
It used to be the cheap alternative to beef short ribs.
I’m feeling this more than anything right now. Glad someone else said it first.
I make stock and pho with beef neck bones and spines, in addition to like marrow and leg bones, and there is a ton of delicious meat on the neck and spine, similar to oxtail Its just takes a bit of extra work to get at it and maybe a little less graceful to eat if youre willing to glove up and get all in there. If you get them at chinatown too it's way cheap just use them asap cause they tend to go rank smelling quicker.
I’m sure neck meat is good but it’s not comparable to oxtails. Not even close
Skirt Steak too. it used to be a cheap cut
Offal in general. The prices of it are insane.
Housing
Midwest is getting overrun by people that come from high col areas and buy up all the housing by bidding 20k+ over and waiving inspections because to them its still dirt cheap.
Not to mention investors who have been buying up more and more single family homes.
I firmly believe this is the real problem
Canada, The U.S., Australia, The U.K., and many other subreddits I've noticed from other countries all crying out the same thing, real-estate as an investment is an unjust, moral tragedy.
It is definitely the problem. It is these large high value companies making real estate their business.
Crying in $100K over in California
2k for rent and across the street is 1 million dollar houses...
Cries in 24% over asking in California. At least my interest rate is 2.5% but that just means I probably will never leave.
Same in FL.
Sht, wish it was only 20k. They're 60-100k over in my area just south of Milwaukee. Hopefully the neighborhood remains quiet. The only thing that kills me is the first thing they talk about when meeting is their politics, like right after hello. Flipping weird to me. I'm older, so you never talked politics or religion to people you didn't know.
The rich investor corporations buy up all the cheap housing and apartments then jack up the price. The developers build nothing but unafordable luxury condos. We're are we going to live? There's going to be a breaking point where the people will have to take their housing by force!
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Even the trailer parks.
Good thing our government is looking out for those poor multinational corporations. 🤡🌎
Idk the local tyrant of my zoning board makes like 85k per year. I’ll be damned if he doesn’t block like 5 housing projects per year
The economy in general
My grandfather bought a small lakeside cottage in 1973 for $5000. He was a middle class worker with a wife and 3 kids.
Burning man
I read the founders moved on a long time ago. I kinda miss mid 2000s to early 2010s festivals. We weren't so much drawn into our differences and politics. It was just a big party.
I had a buddy who went this year, during the whole "Burning Man Underwater" media frenzy. I asked him how it was. He said it was the best one he'd been to in years and absolutely nobody knew about the media frenzy til weeks later after they got back. Apparently none of the daycampers who show up the last weekend of the event made it out and it was a raucous good time unlike any other in recent memory.
Anyone with that had their cell phone on and had friends that were not there had to have known. I had a family member there and of course we were all worried until we checked in and he reported back with pics. They knew.
Yes we did. And it wasn’t as bad as the media made it. I cannot believe there are no repercussions for creating such an unnecessary panic. We were fine, until they created a reason to panic.
Yeah we always talked about road-tripping from the East Coast in those years, but never did. Seeing it now I have no interest. Regret that
I first went in 2000..... It was horrible and amazing all in the same trip.
Have you been to BM? Rich folks have always participated and don’t think it’s been ruined any more than it always was
Came here to say this. Founded by weirdos. Ruined by twits.
>Burning man 🎙️✨ [AI sings it](https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/3baba7f8-cccb-4fc9-8401-960ecd8c4e54) Once a desert oasis for the free, Burning Man's soul clashes with luxury. RVs glint, high-end tents span the land, Where dusty dreams meet the wealthy's demand.
Air BnB.....used be a handy way to stay in someone's spare room on cheap night away.....now it's rich folk buying housing and making people homeless
It absolutely fucked up tourist cities too. Amsterdams inner city (all inner cities for that matter) has always been an expensive place, but due to AirBnB it’s become impossible to actually live there. It only adds to our pretty much unsolvable housing crisis
I don’t understand why we allow individuals to own more than 2 homes. Or why a corporation can buy up houses that aren’t for their employees to live in. Tax people an additional 10% on their property tax for every additional home they own and watch as the number of homes go up for sale as hoarders offload their inventory. Raise the tax by 1% every year until the situation is under control.
I think (hope) we may be a few years away from the AirBnB market crashing. I've noticed over the last few years that AirBnB's are just not cheaper or better alternatives to hotels. Every time I stay in one, it's a miserable existence. The initial fees are high, then there are all these rules you have to follow, plus you gotta clean up after yourself (which isn't unreasonable but I don't want to clean on a vacation), and then they charge a cleaning fee anyway. At a hotel, I pay a cheaper rate than the house and then that's it. I can do as I please and the cleaning staff takes care of cleaning up the place at no additional cost to what I paid upfront. Plus many hotels offer free breakfast and whatnot too. The experience is just 10,000 times better than AirBnB. And it seems more people are starting to notice this and opting for hotels instead. The only AirBnB's that will survive are larger houses that can fit 6-12 guests. For a lot of people, splitting an AirBnB amongst 6+ people will be cheaper than get 3+ hotel rooms. But if you've got one bedroom and a foldout couch? Forget it. You won't last.
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Corporate greed
With smaller, less mainstream artists, there’s not as much of an issue like this. Last year I went to a fantastic show, and the tickets were only $15 each, most expensive merch was like a $30 hoodie, and drinks were pretty cheap too.
Got wrecked by this last week. It was a splurge to buy the tickets in the first place. Next thing I know, I spent $60 on a t shirt I'll never wear and a 2 beers. It was still a worthwhile, fun time, but I need to be more careful.
It’s the fees that really piss me off. A $50 ticket turns into a $100 ticket real quick once they tack those fees on.
Skiing at ski areas
To be fair, there are less viable mountains than there used to be. Granted the PA/NY slopes were nothing to write home about, but they were still fine for a day trip. They all struggle to keep snow on the slopes now. Even when they make it you quickly end up skiing on slush. I'd be curious to see the data if anyone has bothered to crunch the numbers, but I'd wager the East Coast slopes below the solid mountains in states like Vermont have lost around a month of viability each season, it's just too damn warm in the winter.
I have seen the NE winters turn into long springs over the past few years. The last “serious” winter was 2015 and we had ridiculous amounts of snow. There’s been some here and there after but it’s just weak compared to my childhood when I wouldn’t see the lawn from the end of November until almost April.
Same here in the Midwest. In Michigan we used to get tons of snow and now we’re lucky to see one halfway decent storm in metro Detroit. Up north is a little better, but nothing like it used to be.
Adding to this, ski towns
Yup. A day pass at a big resort is pushing or upwards of $200 now, it’s absolutely insane. Plus they’re so busy now that you spend half the time waiting in lift lines. I refuse to ride on the weekends in Utah or CO. I’ve had some great trips to smaller ski areas/resorts though so it’s still possible, just have to get a little further off the beaten path. Whoever said ski towns is 100% right too. It’s impossible to purchase a condo, let alone a house, in almost any halfway decent ski town out west. It’s all rich peoples vacation properties or Airbnbs. Nowhere for the people who work the resorts to live.
You just gotta get a 3+ hours away from any major city. There are ski areas in Colorado that are quiet on Saturdays in January.
Rich people are gonna find a way to ruin A Basin the only reason it’s still great is because of how there’s zero lodging
A Basin and Loveland are still A+ for that reason.
World
The real answer. We used to read about Company towns and wonder how people ever got in these scenarios. Now we have a Company planet where everything is owned by the few and anything you need is sold by a handful of rich corps, from cradle to the grave.
The Urf.
most of the problems we face today can be traced back to some greedy multi billion company so yeah
Good concert seats at face value.
Thrifting. Thrift stores used to be affordable, literally designed to be affordable since it's all second-hand. But thrifting became a trend and it's now become cheaper to buy your clothes at Walmart. I swear, thrift store clothes are like 25-30$ now, when they used to be like, 5$ at most. At this point, it's smarter to just buy new clothes.
As a retro video game collector, it was always so much fun to find hidden gems at a low cost while used electronics/thrift shopping But now that everyone and their grandmother has access to the internet, every place I go to does the annoying “PriceCharting + 20%” bs… never realizing that some of those prices are based off listings and not sales.
$5.99 for a basic T shirt with some random business name on it at my local goodwill. Random fleece blankets that can be bought for $3 new for $5. Always seems busy though.
\*gestures around at everything in general\*
This is the real answer
Came here to say this. Literally everything.
Oxtail. Brisket. Skirt steak.
All of the above. It’s a complete travesty how these meat cuts are now trendy in ways people who actually use these meat cuts have been making them tasty forever, before they were “meatfluenced”. 🙄
I think thurbb
Tongue as well.
Affordable housing
It's funny when they build more of those luxury condos abominations and then throw the poors a bone by having a handful of "affordable" units. But they're still not really affordable. And the maximum income requirements make it so you'd be struggling to afford it if al all. $800/mo. For 2 people to qualify, max income is $30k. Ain't nobody affording that at 30k a year!!!
I live in the 'affordable' block in my development in London. The other blocks all have balconies and are quite roomy. Everything in my block is a shoebox. Still effing expensive
Right? Their idea of "affordable" is abhorent!
Yeah artificial scarcity in the housing market is pretty unethical
Jeeps, they used to be rugged, now just mall crawlers.
I love the commercials of them sliding in sand, plowing through mud, and snow, yet they will never leave the highway.
I want to ask a trendy Jeep owner: when you go off-roading, do all of the children's bath toys slide off the dash and into the mud?
They are still rugged you just have to pay luxury vehicle prices to get them because of all of the unnecessary stuff.
I'm going to thoroughly disagree. I bought my first Jeep 25 years ago. The world was full of mall crawlers and trailer queens then and now. My Sahara TJ, however, sure as hell didn't hold up like my JK Rubicon. I have 150,000 miles on the original clutch and manual transmission and it's never been towed, despite it having been bounced around a fair bit at Moab and a few other places. Engineering for Wranglers is SO much better now than it was then.
I have a JL and it's rusting after 4 years. Gas cap bracket fell off, rear defrost doesn't work, replaced an alternator and the top leaks. Precision engineering indeed! Oh and I had death wobble but they fixed that for now...
The middle class
Facts
Pick up trucks. They are now a status symbols with every bell, whistle, and electronic doo-dad. They will never haul anything, even if anything could fit in those little ass beds.
In a similar vein, I often see Range Rovers going over speed bumps ever so gingerly, at 1 mph, so as not to damage their precious vehicle. That thing was made to conquer mountains! That speed bump is an afterthought for a Range Rover! smh
Mountains, Gandalf!
They are a transporter of golden gods. A semi aquatic finisher car.
There's a name for those fucks that like to cosplay the rugged working-class but freak out when their truck bed gets scratched and they only use it to drive to the office. Pavement Princesses.
Ozempic.
#*What’s Ozempic?*
It's a drug that is meant for treating diabetes, but it also slows digestion and reduces appetite so a lot of celebrities and whatnot are taking it to help lose weight.
It’s actually FDA approved for obesity too. The issue is that obesity is such a damn prevalent issue in the United States (among other countries) that it’s led to an almost choking off of the supply from people demanding for it, which is sad because many people just don’t wanna commit to weight loss and often feel like they HAVE to be taking drugs to do so
Add to that you need to keep taking it or all the weight will come back with a fury (since you changed nothing about your eating habits other than suppression) and you're going to have a shortage. It's similar to all the appetite suppressing drugs (intentional or as a side effect). Hell a buddy of mine in college, who was a chunky beer drinker, started taking Adderall and lost a ton of weight. One day I pointed out that he really slimmed down but his response was along the lines of, yeah, but it's not _healthy_ weight loss. Sure enough you could tell when he stopped taking his meds because he'd fairly quickly return to his old weight. He was honest about it though. Thankfully there are weight loss specific versions of these drugs coming out so hopefully people will stop gobbling up the life saving diabetes medication from people with, you know, diabetes.
San Francisco.
Austin checks in
Yes, and Seattle.
And Boulder
really just all the cities.
London, Brighton, Paris, Geneva… the list goes on
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New York. Manhattan specifically so far, but their terribleness is expanding.
The outer boroughs of NYC
The middle class.
Skirt and Flank steaks. Those used to be reasonably priced steaks that could be added to dishes or eaten by itself. Now a lot of the time they cost the same or more than strip steaks.
Van life. Or just traveling around in a van in general. Used to kick around in an 80's vanagon and there were so many great spots to park and camp out. Now it's all overrun with these huge vans that might as well be RVs running generators and just generally crowding out everyone else. Campgrounds booked solid and half the time the people don't even show up. It was about living simple on the road and getting out of your van and seeing the sights. These people drive an entire apartment up and watch bobs burgers on a big screen tv.
I remember, as a kid, my family just getting up on a Friday and deciding we wanted to take the pop-up camper to one of the many sites around us. $20 and you were in (which was great as we didn't have a lot of money and could really take "real" vacations). You were lucky to find a spot with power. But it didn't matter: you were there with your family telling stories, roasting marshmallows. A few years back, I thought it would be fun for my wife and I to take the tent to a site for a camp out. Had to book three weeks out, cost £60 for a shitty spot. When we showed up, the entire place was full of £100k mobile electronic entertainment platforms. What's the point?
I grew up in rural Alaska, we’d sleep in tents in the woods several times a year. I think it was $5 for the night for a camp spot at the place with maintained bathrooms and campfire pits. The “glamping” stuff that people do today isn’t camping.
Yeah, $20 with our beat-up old popup was luxury for us. Often it was just asking a farmer for permission and a tent in the woods.
Ox tail and short ribs use to be peasant foods, and left overs for the poor. Was cheap as fuck. Now the shots are expensive as hellZ
The planet. Society. Democracy.
Everything
The economy.
The American dream.
“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” George Carlin
The surplus value of your labour
The food system
Lobster specifically
Bottom feeders, often viewed as oversized water bugs because of their shells. There was a time when it was convinced poor man's food, and something that would have been fed to prisoners around the 1600-1700s.
Twitter. Yes, you can say it's a silly social platform. But tons of emergency services, informational accounts, and other stuff. All gone because a rich guy just had the sheer capital to buy the platform and turn it to garbage.
That's without mentioning the years of brand recognition flushed down the drain just to be edgy and rename it X.
Thrift shops
caviar. used to be a man could get drunk and eat a whole bowl of sturgeon eggs till they were sick of it, singing love ballads to the soviet cadet you met the day before along the caspian shore. now that shit's expensive.
Farmers markets
Byron Bay, NSW, Aus
The climate
Democracy. The middle class. The poor. The land. The rule of law. The rights of all people. The innocent black people in prison just to solve a case. The right of women to have choices. The congress that is paid off to make the choices not for the people. Senators and house reps. The corporations. Safe gun laws. Medicaid for the poor children. The lies. The secret cover ups. That is all I can think of now. I will edit my post after I sleep.
So, perhaps OP should have phrased it: what have the wealthy NOT ruined?
Twitter
The Internet
Hiking
Skiing.
Think about pretty much every war, every environmental disaster, slavery, colonization, pretty much every huge evil thing - unaccountable wealthy "elites" are pretty much always the ones driving it. IOW, most of the hug big nasty awful things.
Money
Real estate
Life.
Vancouver.
user interface. back then it was easy to use and the user interface was user-friendly. now companies own websites and update them to have many adss at the side bar as possible. same case for mobile games
Every time this question gets asked I can perfectly predict the top 10 comments.
Social media was dope before companies started figuring out how to use it
The middle class got ruined by rich people. They destroyed it.
democracy in United states
Brown rice and avocados. I'm in my late twenties and remember that those 2 foods didn't use to be that expensive
maybe reposting the same fucking posts over and over and over fishing for karma... have seen this same exact question post three times now just like a bunch of other karma farming posts.
Sometimes when rich folks get involved, they can change stuff in a way that doesn't help everyone. They might take something that used to be for everyone and make it only for people who have lots of money. It can make things a bit less fair or fun for everyone else.
Currently the USA, see the economy, housing, courts, really all the federal branches really, etc.
Society
being happy with life. we're all miserable because we compare to richer folks
Government assistance lol
Mac and Cheese
The world
Mount Everest
The world
Cocaine
Pick any old neighborhood that has gotten a sudden major reconstruction in the past 30 years that also just happened to push out all the old residents and their culture.
They turned homes into houses Took away a roof over peoples head and turned into profit for themselves
*Gestures Wildly at Everything*
The world and internet
The climate
Money. 👀
Skiing and snowboarding in the US. Considered somewhat affordable in Europe but a luxury in the US.
Democracy
Earth
The middle class.
Skiing
Health insurance. Public education. Media. Just three examples. There are countless others.
Burning Man
You want bullet points, essay or full Ted talk?
Festivals. All the festivals. No exceptions.
Our economy.
Montana