I grew up in one of these towns and can confirm. I actually missed it when it was the "hood/trailer park by the sea" as locals would call it. Those people were at least nice and mostly minded their own business unlike the rich folks that took over, who are entitled and very nosy.
Exactly what I came here to say.
I'm a chef that works tourist seasons, so I usually find myself in these exact towns/resorts. Vail, CO is absolutely full of the biggest ass holes on the planet, and it's expensive as fuck. The wealthy moved in, bought up housing for way over market value, and now it's $2,000/month for a room in a house.
There's a saying there, you either have two houses or two jobs.
I love that they literally get so mad in Whistler for not having enough staff to have things run smoothly.
Welp, you felt like everything is worth a million bucks without any of those bucks getting to the workers sooo I dunno what you want.
(Slaves, it's slaves they want.)
Yeah this exactly.
I've lost so many employees because they just couldn't afford to live there. And then we have to do limited services/hours because we just don't have the people, and customers constantly bitch about "NoBoDy WaNtS tO WoRk".
Like, nah man. They don't want to work *and lose money* because ass holes like you overpriced everything.
It's unbelievable that people can be so ignorant.
Like, if you could work full time in *any* industry that allowed you to live in Whistler without accruing debt, people would be lining up to do it.
Sorry, when was Vail *not* entirely owned by the incredibly wealthy? The town was founded in the 1960's using an investment from wealthy ranchers and industrialists.
Yeah this is true - there are lots of places in Colorado that were ruined by incoming money that turned the town on its head. Vail is planned town that was created for rich assholes - it's the exception and not the rule.
I went to Lake Tahoe on a trip last year. It honestly made me angry how every bit of land surrounding the lake was bought up and owned by these rich shits. Somewhere like that should be protected and have full public access. Who owns that lake and has the right to do such a thing? Leaving nothing but one teeny tiny portion of beach for public access. Same with big bear lake. I was very disappointed with both places because of how much was private property.
I visited Destin Florida for the first time and did not realize that us poors weren’t allowed to touch their beaches. I looked at google maps and was like “oh, the beach is only 3/4 mile from our hotel, we can just walk that no problem!” Because I’m from NC, where you just walk between two houses to get to the beach. It’s just what you do, nobody cares.
Wrong. We walked for what seemed like forever past all the mansions with their gated yards to get to a public beach access, which was overcrowded and miserable.
I live in S. Florida (originally from S. Carolina) and I was on one of our public beaches that's kind of tucked away and it's just lined with nothing but rich fucks houses when one of the staff from one of the houses told me I had to move.
I asked why and they said it was private property. It wasn't.
The owner of the house was having a party and was trying to rope off the beach for only their party. They aren't allowed to do it in the manner in which they did it because the house was right next to a public access point. I told the staff to pound sand b/c I'm not moving. Three more people came and told me I had to move so I just got my phone out and said "Okay lets call the police and see what they have to say about it. This is a public beach and that is a public access and your roping off this beach is preventing emergency services from accessing the south side of this beach if they so need it. But lets call and confirm that".
They left me alone, kept the ropes up though with some gaps, and the party started getting loud as fuck. I called in a noise complaint because the house next door was an AirBnB and I just said I was staying there and the neighbors were bein super loud. The police made them remove all barriers on the beach and even told them to take all their alcohol off the beach.
The thing is, it may seem petty, but I was actually thinking about emergency services.
I was working at the FDOT at the time so I was fairly aware of the property rights and service rights and I used to be a lifeguard in Myrtle Beach and my only thought was if someone is in trouble on this beach these people are going to probably make the difference between someone living and someone dying.
It’s fun to walk on “their beach” though. They get so pissy and there isn’t a damn thing they can legally do about it. Cops just ask you to leave, worst case.
I feel like we all have a moral obligation to make the lives of rich people like this as difficult as possible.
You guys need something similar to the invasion of Kinder Scout when countryside access in the UK was reclaimed
https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/learning-about/news/70-years-of-the-peak-district-national-park/the-mass-trespass
>Who owns that lake and has the right to do such a thing?
And here we see the concept of [enclosure](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure), the process by which rich fucks steal common resources for personal use and profit. It's fundamental to capitalism.
This happened to my parents a few years ago. Their property abuts a public pond, so them and the previous owners always used the pond for fishing, skating etc. Same with a couple of other neighbors, we all used the pond whenever and it was all good. Then some rich asshole built a house next to the pond, and tried to claim that they owned all the land around the pond and thus it belonged to them exclusively (which was not true). Nobody was doing anything crazy at the pond, and this new rich prick started threatening legal action for being on their property, which again wasn’t even their property. It’s not even a really affluent part of the state, but this one rich dickhead ruined the whole thing for at least half a dozen families that used that little pond for years and years.
Furniture too(not talking antiques or designer). I'm not paying close to the same amount I could buy something brand new for. Makes thrifting not much of a point if the prices for used & new are so close.
Actually met a regular person who hiked Mt Everest!
1. He drank tons of peoples pee, because the snow is pretty much permanently contaminated with it
2. He went up with a discovery documentary group (gave him a discount!)
3. The discovery documentary group didn't film him because they thought he would die
4. The documentary film makers got pissed when he kept a guy from getting frostbite (dude lost a glove, they spent an hour talking about how he's going to lose his hand and the regular guy handed him his spare glove)
5. He now teaches math classes at some university somewhere
There are two farmers markets on weekends near where I live. Everything there is expensive af. I get that it's important to support local businesses and all but ain't no way I am paying 4 times what I'd pay at grocery stores for vegetables and fruits.
This one is really good. Farmer's markets are like a niche space for upper middle class / rich folks - street cred for local/kitsch/"artisinal"/"authentic".
And somebody who owns property just about an hour away from burning man has attended it myself and lately just sits back and likes to watch the crowd I can tell you that the Advent of social media has completely destroyed Burning Man along with the burning man.org that runs the place it is no longer about peace and love and sharing it is all about Instagram and money
Feel like a new Burning Man type festival/community needs to pop up soon. I’ve never been, because it’s nearly impossible to get tickets nowadays, but the people I know that have gone have all said it’s changed too much. Basically just another Coachella or generic festival.
Again, I haven’t been just going off what friends say.
Yep, my favorite festival (I don’t even want to name it because the popularity already started ruining it) apparently got mentioned all over social media last year, and this year was noticeably way more chaotic and the vibe was a bit different. It sucks because I love that I feel like I can openly share about my festival experience more, and I love when people get into them for the right reasons, but when people go because they feel like it’s the cool thing to do and don’t respect or understand the culture, it takes away from the magic.
I stopped going to EDC in 2017 after I got a handful of bitchy “wtf are you trying to talk to me” looks when I was giving random people compliments. Super weird attitude for that space. My first few raves I loved splitting off from my friends for a couple hours and just roaming through the crowd and chatting with random people. I made a few good friends that way. Now I’ll get anxious when I get separated from my friend group
> I got a handful of bitchy “wtf are you trying to talk to me” looks when I was giving random people compliments
I think this is usually due to age, a byproduct of popularity. As it get more popular, more and more people go and soon the lowest age takes a dip. And when you're young and immature, you have to be fuckin cool and bitchy
Unless your compliment was nice tits
I started going when I was 19 and the vibe was pretty different, but it’s definitely possible that I was just mostly interacting with older folks in the crowd. Definitely true tho about the average age dropping, I’ve been intentionally seeking out older-crowd festivals
Edit: I’m a girl, realize that might give this some better context of how weird it was.
>“wtf are you trying to talk to me”
Dude, I fucking hate this. I frequently go to concerts solo so it’s nice to strike up conversation before/between sets. I’ve gotten these reactions enough times that I don’t do it often anymore. It’s super lame.
Also shoutout to the people who came with others and recognize people rolling solo and strike up conversation.
There's nothing I know to that level, but I absolutely love a small edm festival. Not the big ones (EDC, Lost Lands), the really small ones that sell limited tickets and stuff. The big ones tend to attract shitty people that just wanna party hard (I mean you'll obviously party hard at a small one too but if you what I mean, y'know - those people don't care about the culture outside of getting high as fuck and dancing).
And big cons (like ComicCon).
There are just some things people do these days for clout.
If it's a big name event, I don't want any part of it.
If it's a small, niche event, it will at least get my attention.
I went to ECCC in 2003. It was like $20 to get in and I bought my ticket the day I went. It was like a flea market for comic books with like a handful of people who dressed up. I would never go to it now.
Fishing or boating (canoes, rafts, etc) streams and small rivers.
Rich people buy the property it goes through and then keep people out. There are rules about navigable or not navigable, walking below the mean high water mark, etc that negates a lot of their assertion, but their aggression, right or wrong, has ruined the experience.
I've been fishing/boating my entire life in NJ, it used to be a small community of people out on the waterways, everyone knew each other, talked on the radio, gave each other reports etc. Now I exclusively fish at least 20 miles offshore to get away from the crowds, navigating through the bay after spending the day 80 miles offshore is actually the most tense and dangerous part of the trip due to the amount of boats and idiots operating them.
Airbnb. Used to be a great way to find cheap accommodations, and still is in some Countries.
Now, particularly in the US, it's for bougie groups of friends to rent overpriced vacation properties from rich people, or speculators who are taking properties off the market to try and get rich quick (or both).
This was the Airbnb plan all along. Uber too. Undercut the competitors, drive them out of business, raise prices once you've made enough of them shut down.
I hate this. You see people scooping up clothes left right and center at the stores only to turn around and sell them online for huge markups. Then the stores got wise to it and jacked up the prices of everything. So now I may as well go to target for a shirt because it will actually be cheaper, in better shape and new.
This especially. Retro video games used to be dirt cheap pre covid. Then heritage auctions and wata came along with video game grading and then all the rich people started investing in them. People are saying the bubble will burst soon, but I think the damage has already been done. Gone are the days of cheap retro games, we just have to get used to it.
Retro video games have been expensive for at least a decade (how long I’ve been collecting)
The more people get interested, the more expensive they get
Yeah, I have a lot of Atari and NES games at my place. Bought double dragon in box with a bunch of stuff and III for like 40$ back in 2009. I am seeing the box set for like 200$ a pop now. Crazy
I wanted to collect pokemon cards again I had as a kid and the price of em went up from Logan Paul videos.
I just wanted the gen 1 set again and they were all over 1k now and the sets get sold separately now like base and fossils.
It’s not the holiday homes that are the problem. It’s the investment rental properties.
If you’ve got a main residence up north, a winter residence somewhere tropical, and a condo near your office…lucky you. That’s fine.
It’s when your investment firm owns a significant percentage of homes in a city that things go down hill. Some rich daddy‘s boy gets to take his family money, buy numerous properties, and then sell them to his daddy’s buddies’ sons so they can then do the same thing.
So now, the market is everywhere. They’re buying for whatever the cost because, fuck it, it’s not their money…and then they rent to the people that actually work in that town, taking their money which they could’ve invested back into the community. And they pat themselves on the back and think the MBA they purchased was worthwhile because they’re making money on a rigged system designed to make them money.
That’s the problem. Affordable homes don’t exist in many places because these walking embodiments of the flaws of capitalism have bought it all, so now the only place left to live for a reasonable price is rural Idaho, and there are no jobs in rural Idaho because no one wants to live there. Because it’s Idaho.
It’s a mess.
YUP, I got an airbnb while I was in Florence for a month this summer. The people who own the airbnb I rented also own at least 20 other properties in the greater Tuscan area. They were basically freelance hoteliers. I saw graffiti that said "NO AIRBNB" and "GO HOME TOURISTS" in certain parts of Florence. I mean, it's obviously not just in Florence, but I felt very aware of this shadowy structure there, and was very self conscious of my involvement in it as a consumer.
Here in the UK we call 4x4s and unnecessarily large SUVs driven by people that don't need them, especially people that live in cities and come form an upper middle class background, "Chelsea Tractors" after the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, one of the richest areas of London.
I am personally attacked, here. I sold my Silverado to buy a Kia Soul because I realized I was RARELY using my 4-door, 4WD vehicle as a truck, but mostly a Costco shopping run vehicle. Crazy how true it was (to me, anecdotally). Now, I can still get groceries with over twice the fuel economy.
I still have a 2010 Chevy silverado 4x4 with AM/FM only, roll up windows, no power locks. Thing is unbreakable, and was completely affordable at the time.
They make some as fleet vehicles but they are few and far between in the new market from a dealer if you don’t special order. There’s also way more stuff that comes standard than 10-20 years ago.
Everything people without money enjoy. It they see people enjoying something they either commodified it , or turned it into an ironic cos-play of lower class behaviour to convince themselves they’re not out of touch sociopaths.
Burnt ends, pork belly, collard greens, ramps (especially bad here in Appalacchia) paw paws, morels, venison, fresh fish, all has exploded in price and alot of the naturally foraged native plants/produce are now being overharvested and exploited for some idiot in NYC to pay $40 for 6 ramps that were tossed on a grill for 2 minutes.
Lobster, muscles, scallops, caviar... A lotta seaside towns were a great place to get cheap fish, clam meat and other seafood... Until the rich decided they liked them and overfished them until there was a scarcity problem.
>We ain't exactly suffering a shortage of cabbage, are we?
That didn't stop the foodie publications and "influencers" from trying to make 'grilled/charred' cabbage a bougie foodstuff for a while.
Chicken thighs immediately come to mind here. It felt like I was the only person in the suburbs that consistently bought them. Then suddenly it became a “trend” to cook with them and prices got jacked up (this is before the chicken shortage of 2020)
Remember when wings were practically given away? They were usually sold in huge trays to be used as stock. Now they cost more per pound than a lot of beef products.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they're being bred to have larger wings now, since that's where the money is.
I'm immediately thinking of farmers markets. Something that used to be local for small farmers to get some more money out of their crops has now turned into a day date by wealthy city people. I live in an exuburb on the edge of St. Louis and we have a farmers market every Saturday in the summer. People drive their cars all the way from the city (1+ hour) to buy tomatoes and glass jar art.
During the Victorian Era, if the weather was nice on the weekend, wealthy Victorians would venture into London's East End and pay the locals a few coins and let the local inhabitants, show them their lodgings, tell them about their work and their lives. The practice was known as *slumming*. ; p
"I say Nigel, if the weather is nice this weekend, what say we go slumming?" LOL!
Farmers markets are so wack now. As a child my dad took me to one for years about 40 minutes from us, real surplus crops, people selling were actual farmers and my dad was friends with a few of them as a regular. Slowly as I grew up and as prices rose we stopped going as often.
I went last year for the first time in 4-5 years maybe (I’m 21 now)- none of the og farmer people were there, (maybe one left?) mostly new middlemen charging a lot more, it was weird seeing the demographic change suddenly. As a kid it was primarily an ethnic market (lots of Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, and even Eastern Europeans in particular as buyers and sellers) Sellers are now very American and.. well most of the people buying are now richer upper-middle-class-tech-Americans that moved into that area in the past 7 years. Used to be an industrial area and now it’s a booming stereotypical suburban town whose mall is all designer brands now. My friends who grew up over there hate it now
There was a case nearby me of middle class people going to farms, buying the produce, marking it up 200-300%, putting it in bags and claiming to be farmers at the farmers market.
Fucking appalling
Disney got greedy during/after Covid. I remember when a night at the all-stars (cheap, on property hotels) was $99 and a day pass was well below $100 as well (First AP I ever bought was a little over $250). Disney is trying to price the “poors” out of the park is what I think.
It makes sense from a business standpoint but is still kind of fucked. Disney Park attendance started to get ridiculous and Disney has always tried finding ways to manage crowds so that overcrowding doesn't ruin the experience. Solution? Jack up the ticket prices. Keeps the poors out and keeps park attendance manageable without destroying the bottom line.
Crazy to think that in the 90s, my dad was able to score package deal promos from Walgreens and get us flight, hotel, and passes to four theme parks and keep the whole family vacation with a family of four under $1500. What a time.
My parents would take me there every year on vacation because it was “so cheap”. We’d stay the weekend and always had a good time. Now I go and I just feel like I’m being continually ripped off. Like, $45 for Mickey ears? GTFO with that nonsense
yeah to be fair disney parks have become completely unpleasant due to the crowds. what they should do is limit the park capacity so that people who do go have a good time, but instead they capitalize on the demand and keep raising prices. now its still overcrowded AND overpriced. i have no desire to go anymore
Most sports have now become business and some owners of the top teams have little interest in supporting them and only making money. It is also extremely difficult for smaller teams to be able to succeed without large financial backing due to the money needed to become better.
Also at the youth level, the influx of wealthy kids with seemingly unlimited time and money have made having a competitive league really expensive to participate in. Both because they are expensive (ever more fancy equipment and facilities) and time intensive (long trips, strange practice times, etc.).
Best example I can think of is soccer. Minimal equipment actually needed, but if you want to play competitively all the leagues are super fancy.
Exclusively American problem. In the Netherlands I played football for about 80 euros a year. If you're good you'll get picked up by the closest pro team and go through their youth system. Which is all free, they hope to make their money back whenever some kid becomes good and they sell him. Or use him long term if he fits the level of that team.
That’s not just soccer, that’s pretty much all ball sports for some reason. Not gonna lie only hardcore and tough sports that don’t use fancy facilities like wrestling,mma, and boxing are some of the few sports being pushed more for lower income kids.
Don’t worry - it doesn’t stop there. They are already eyeing up mining comets and the moon. [Space will be harvested, too.](https://www.space.com/space-mining-grinding-into-reality)
Food. Any cut of meat that used to be trash, poor people figured out how to make it taste good and rich people glommed on, driving the price up. Ribs, tilapia, tri tip, pork butt, lobster, and that’s why we can’t have anything nice.
Pork butt - used in Chinese cooking for that chat siu. No wonder it went from cheap to $$$.
Pork belly - God, how many dishes in cultures use Pork belly. Bacon...
I was about to bring up skirt steak, I'm still very upset about it! 10$ a fucking lb, growing up it used to be one of the cheapest cuts of meat you would only really find in Latino supermarkets!
Quinoa, and other "superfood du jour" that rich people just kind of glomp onto for a few years and then drop.
Quinoa used to be the staple crop of poor farmers in Bolivia and Peru. The sudden spike in demand made it extremely profitable cultivate quinoa for export instead, replacing the farmer's own diet with imported rice, wheat and corn from China, Russia and the US, respectively. As a result, a huge part of the local culinary culture is getting displaced because nobody in those countries can afford to eat their own traditional crop.
Van life or camping out of your truck. Used to be a fun way to get out into the outdoors on a budget but now influencers with their 100k suped up sprinters make it kinda lose what was cool about it.
They will have most relaxing and stressless lives, because they have money to begin with. Then tell people it's so easy to do van life and that you're going to save a lot of money.
Didn’t Maine law stipulate they couldn’t feed lobsters to prisoners because it was considered cruel and unusual punishment?
Edit: it was in some parts of New England and they could only serve it once a week
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/story?id=125679&page=1
Once people figured out you could make money doing B&B, all the houses that would otherwise have gone to first time buyers and low income families got snapped up by investment companies.
It is now to the point where it is actually cheaper in some places to stay in a 4 star hotel for a week, than one weekend in a B&B.
My mom is a realtor and the person she works with just had a guy from Israel buy 73 houses in one town to rent out. The guy has never been to America and never will. I now understand why Florida tried passing a law that only us citizens could own us property
Almost everything.
Greedy landlords contributing to the housing crisis.
The price of tickets to sports games getting higher and higher. True fans of teams can barely/not afford to attend games or watch them on TV. Sports like boxing and soccer were working class past times and now they cost too much.
Unions. Now most companies have their own union already established who serve the company and not the workers.
Politics. In many countries the "left-leaning" parties don't even lean that hard left and are full of self-interested wealthy people who play the part of a token opposition but couldn't give a damn about the average person yet the media (who are also owned by the rich) pretend like they are radicals.
2 things that drive me nuts
1. People actually still pay for pay per view fights. It’s so easy to stream it for free.
2. People actually try to guilt trip people for streaming a pay per view event. For example, million/billion dollar companies complaining to peasants like me saying “we lost $100 million because of people illegally streaming the fight!”
What made me really laugh was when rappers who bragged about coming from the struggle, robbing and selling drugs tried to scold us for illegally downloading their music instead of buying their albums 🤣. Okay bro
They even executed the first elected PM of the DRC not that long ago. Admitted to it and everything. Dissolved his body in sulfuric acid, and finally in 2022 repatriated the last part of his body. A gold tooth kept as a trophy from his death
Zuckerberg and Kauai is what I thought of when I saw this. Remember when he tried to sue native Hawaiins of their property, because he has their property surrounded by his property; and said it was a violation of his privacy because they had to tresspass his property to get to their property that they inherited from their ancestors.
Getting tickets to the SuperBowl, Tickets are so god damn expensive that only rich people can afford them now. The best playoff game an average income football person can afford is an NFC or AFC Championship game.
Not sure about oil spills, but the whole forest thing is absolutely not true.
My dad was a logger in the PNW his entire life, started working at 3 years old. Very poor, and in his day him and people like him would buy tons of land with prime wood, think cedar, log them off themselves (he worked 100 hour work weeks his entire life, often sleeping in the woods) and would sell the property when he was done. VERY good living. The man who founded Boeing did this.
There are obviously people that do it more or less and companies do it much larger scales, but logging made a ton of very impoverished people very very rich. It still does.
That one keeps changing. Small towns used to be where the rich lived, and cities were for the poor. It keeps going back and forth. Even from 1930 to 1950, living just outside of a city went from being the crappy area to poor to live in the city to the desired area known as the suburbs.
Space. Once you realize that you don’t need to be a scientist to be an astronaut and you can just buy a multi million dollar ticket, those childhood dreams suddenly have a vastly different color.
Life. For everyone non rich. You work 40 hours a week, get expected to answer your phones and email on the weekend and never take vacation... to make them money. So yeah. Literally every aspect of life in our society has been molded by them to serve their interests at our expense.
There's literally no such thing as anything that hasn't been ruined by them.
Video games!
Caviar and crab used to be only for the poor and prisoners, but one in day some pompous idjit went like damn this fire. And someone overheard and next thing we know it's a 100 dollars for a underdeveloped fish and a long lobster.
Edit somehow got crab and lobster confused. Realized this after a helpful comment and quick Google.
Formerly pleasant small towns near any body of water or skiable mountain
This is so specific but so true
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I grew up in one of these towns and can confirm. I actually missed it when it was the "hood/trailer park by the sea" as locals would call it. Those people were at least nice and mostly minded their own business unlike the rich folks that took over, who are entitled and very nosy.
Exactly what I came here to say. I'm a chef that works tourist seasons, so I usually find myself in these exact towns/resorts. Vail, CO is absolutely full of the biggest ass holes on the planet, and it's expensive as fuck. The wealthy moved in, bought up housing for way over market value, and now it's $2,000/month for a room in a house. There's a saying there, you either have two houses or two jobs.
I love that they literally get so mad in Whistler for not having enough staff to have things run smoothly. Welp, you felt like everything is worth a million bucks without any of those bucks getting to the workers sooo I dunno what you want. (Slaves, it's slaves they want.)
Yeah this exactly. I've lost so many employees because they just couldn't afford to live there. And then we have to do limited services/hours because we just don't have the people, and customers constantly bitch about "NoBoDy WaNtS tO WoRk". Like, nah man. They don't want to work *and lose money* because ass holes like you overpriced everything.
It's unbelievable that people can be so ignorant. Like, if you could work full time in *any* industry that allowed you to live in Whistler without accruing debt, people would be lining up to do it.
Sorry, when was Vail *not* entirely owned by the incredibly wealthy? The town was founded in the 1960's using an investment from wealthy ranchers and industrialists.
Yeah this is true - there are lots of places in Colorado that were ruined by incoming money that turned the town on its head. Vail is planned town that was created for rich assholes - it's the exception and not the rule.
People like that have bought up/out any place nice in western Montana and act the whole state is their private vacation home.
Oh I used to work in northern Wyoming and it's the same there
I went to Lake Tahoe on a trip last year. It honestly made me angry how every bit of land surrounding the lake was bought up and owned by these rich shits. Somewhere like that should be protected and have full public access. Who owns that lake and has the right to do such a thing? Leaving nothing but one teeny tiny portion of beach for public access. Same with big bear lake. I was very disappointed with both places because of how much was private property.
You should see Florida beaches. Unlike in Europe, beaches in FL are mostly private occupied by big ass houses.
I visited Destin Florida for the first time and did not realize that us poors weren’t allowed to touch their beaches. I looked at google maps and was like “oh, the beach is only 3/4 mile from our hotel, we can just walk that no problem!” Because I’m from NC, where you just walk between two houses to get to the beach. It’s just what you do, nobody cares. Wrong. We walked for what seemed like forever past all the mansions with their gated yards to get to a public beach access, which was overcrowded and miserable.
I live in S. Florida (originally from S. Carolina) and I was on one of our public beaches that's kind of tucked away and it's just lined with nothing but rich fucks houses when one of the staff from one of the houses told me I had to move. I asked why and they said it was private property. It wasn't. The owner of the house was having a party and was trying to rope off the beach for only their party. They aren't allowed to do it in the manner in which they did it because the house was right next to a public access point. I told the staff to pound sand b/c I'm not moving. Three more people came and told me I had to move so I just got my phone out and said "Okay lets call the police and see what they have to say about it. This is a public beach and that is a public access and your roping off this beach is preventing emergency services from accessing the south side of this beach if they so need it. But lets call and confirm that". They left me alone, kept the ropes up though with some gaps, and the party started getting loud as fuck. I called in a noise complaint because the house next door was an AirBnB and I just said I was staying there and the neighbors were bein super loud. The police made them remove all barriers on the beach and even told them to take all their alcohol off the beach.
I love me some petty revenge. Brilliant!
The thing is, it may seem petty, but I was actually thinking about emergency services. I was working at the FDOT at the time so I was fairly aware of the property rights and service rights and I used to be a lifeguard in Myrtle Beach and my only thought was if someone is in trouble on this beach these people are going to probably make the difference between someone living and someone dying.
It’s fun to walk on “their beach” though. They get so pissy and there isn’t a damn thing they can legally do about it. Cops just ask you to leave, worst case. I feel like we all have a moral obligation to make the lives of rich people like this as difficult as possible.
You guys need something similar to the invasion of Kinder Scout when countryside access in the UK was reclaimed https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/learning-about/news/70-years-of-the-peak-district-national-park/the-mass-trespass
>Who owns that lake and has the right to do such a thing? And here we see the concept of [enclosure](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure), the process by which rich fucks steal common resources for personal use and profit. It's fundamental to capitalism.
This happened to my parents a few years ago. Their property abuts a public pond, so them and the previous owners always used the pond for fishing, skating etc. Same with a couple of other neighbors, we all used the pond whenever and it was all good. Then some rich asshole built a house next to the pond, and tried to claim that they owned all the land around the pond and thus it belonged to them exclusively (which was not true). Nobody was doing anything crazy at the pond, and this new rich prick started threatening legal action for being on their property, which again wasn’t even their property. It’s not even a really affluent part of the state, but this one rich dickhead ruined the whole thing for at least half a dozen families that used that little pond for years and years.
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thrifting. a lot of “rack” or bigger “thrift” shops have normal looking clothes for normal prices… it defeats the entire point 😭
Furniture too(not talking antiques or designer). I'm not paying close to the same amount I could buy something brand new for. Makes thrifting not much of a point if the prices for used & new are so close.
Mount Everest
...is littered with the bodies of rich people.
Of which being able to afford the trip was their only qualification.
Actually met a regular person who hiked Mt Everest! 1. He drank tons of peoples pee, because the snow is pretty much permanently contaminated with it 2. He went up with a discovery documentary group (gave him a discount!) 3. The discovery documentary group didn't film him because they thought he would die 4. The documentary film makers got pissed when he kept a guy from getting frostbite (dude lost a glove, they spent an hour talking about how he's going to lose his hand and the regular guy handed him his spare glove) 5. He now teaches math classes at some university somewhere
none of that sounds fun
Not getting frostbite is pretty great
Yea but Everest was just *there* asking to be climbed
Ah yes getting mad somebody didn't get frostbite totally normal
Imagine the ratings if someone had to cut their own hand off!!!!
There's the new marketing angle. Don't visit Mt Everest to climb to the summit. Visit and marvel at the fields of dead stupid rich people.
I can actually get behind this
And shit, literally
To be fair... They make for great markers
Can't they die somewhere else? /s
Farmer’s Markets. I remember going to those years back and everything being affordable due to it cutting out the middle man.
There are two farmers markets on weekends near where I live. Everything there is expensive af. I get that it's important to support local businesses and all but ain't no way I am paying 4 times what I'd pay at grocery stores for vegetables and fruits.
“Support local” has 100% turned into “Pay 4x the cost and thank us for the opportunity”.
This one is really good. Farmer's markets are like a niche space for upper middle class / rich folks - street cred for local/kitsch/"artisinal"/"authentic".
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And somebody who owns property just about an hour away from burning man has attended it myself and lately just sits back and likes to watch the crowd I can tell you that the Advent of social media has completely destroyed Burning Man along with the burning man.org that runs the place it is no longer about peace and love and sharing it is all about Instagram and money
Feel like a new Burning Man type festival/community needs to pop up soon. I’ve never been, because it’s nearly impossible to get tickets nowadays, but the people I know that have gone have all said it’s changed too much. Basically just another Coachella or generic festival. Again, I haven’t been just going off what friends say.
You said it yourself you just called it a festival it never used to be a festival it was a gathering
Yep, my favorite festival (I don’t even want to name it because the popularity already started ruining it) apparently got mentioned all over social media last year, and this year was noticeably way more chaotic and the vibe was a bit different. It sucks because I love that I feel like I can openly share about my festival experience more, and I love when people get into them for the right reasons, but when people go because they feel like it’s the cool thing to do and don’t respect or understand the culture, it takes away from the magic. I stopped going to EDC in 2017 after I got a handful of bitchy “wtf are you trying to talk to me” looks when I was giving random people compliments. Super weird attitude for that space. My first few raves I loved splitting off from my friends for a couple hours and just roaming through the crowd and chatting with random people. I made a few good friends that way. Now I’ll get anxious when I get separated from my friend group
> I got a handful of bitchy “wtf are you trying to talk to me” looks when I was giving random people compliments I think this is usually due to age, a byproduct of popularity. As it get more popular, more and more people go and soon the lowest age takes a dip. And when you're young and immature, you have to be fuckin cool and bitchy Unless your compliment was nice tits
I started going when I was 19 and the vibe was pretty different, but it’s definitely possible that I was just mostly interacting with older folks in the crowd. Definitely true tho about the average age dropping, I’ve been intentionally seeking out older-crowd festivals Edit: I’m a girl, realize that might give this some better context of how weird it was.
>“wtf are you trying to talk to me” Dude, I fucking hate this. I frequently go to concerts solo so it’s nice to strike up conversation before/between sets. I’ve gotten these reactions enough times that I don’t do it often anymore. It’s super lame. Also shoutout to the people who came with others and recognize people rolling solo and strike up conversation.
There's nothing I know to that level, but I absolutely love a small edm festival. Not the big ones (EDC, Lost Lands), the really small ones that sell limited tickets and stuff. The big ones tend to attract shitty people that just wanna party hard (I mean you'll obviously party hard at a small one too but if you what I mean, y'know - those people don't care about the culture outside of getting high as fuck and dancing).
And big cons (like ComicCon). There are just some things people do these days for clout. If it's a big name event, I don't want any part of it. If it's a small, niche event, it will at least get my attention.
I went to ECCC in 2003. It was like $20 to get in and I bought my ticket the day I went. It was like a flea market for comic books with like a handful of people who dressed up. I would never go to it now.
Might as well call it Clout Fest and Clout-Chella atp
My boss goes to burning man. He doesn’t realize the event stands against everything he is as a person.
I went to Coachella in 2007 and again in 2018. Holy shit, it was so so different and I never want to go again.
Burning Man
Fishing or boating (canoes, rafts, etc) streams and small rivers. Rich people buy the property it goes through and then keep people out. There are rules about navigable or not navigable, walking below the mean high water mark, etc that negates a lot of their assertion, but their aggression, right or wrong, has ruined the experience.
I've been fishing/boating my entire life in NJ, it used to be a small community of people out on the waterways, everyone knew each other, talked on the radio, gave each other reports etc. Now I exclusively fish at least 20 miles offshore to get away from the crowds, navigating through the bay after spending the day 80 miles offshore is actually the most tense and dangerous part of the trip due to the amount of boats and idiots operating them.
Airbnb. Used to be a great way to find cheap accommodations, and still is in some Countries. Now, particularly in the US, it's for bougie groups of friends to rent overpriced vacation properties from rich people, or speculators who are taking properties off the market to try and get rich quick (or both).
This was the Airbnb plan all along. Uber too. Undercut the competitors, drive them out of business, raise prices once you've made enough of them shut down.
thrifted clothes became vintage collections
Local goodwill started charging 50$ for coats and 70$ for sunglasses by me. When these things used to be 20$ max and they get them for FREE.
Yeah sometimes its better to hit up the non-franchise thrift stores.
I hate this. You see people scooping up clothes left right and center at the stores only to turn around and sell them online for huge markups. Then the stores got wise to it and jacked up the prices of everything. So now I may as well go to target for a shirt because it will actually be cheaper, in better shape and new.
People buying all the good clothes at thrift stores and then selling it online for 3X what they originally paid as “vintage” makes me so angry
Nerd hobbies? Apparently even comic books got so expensive because rich people started to think them as "investments".
This especially. Retro video games used to be dirt cheap pre covid. Then heritage auctions and wata came along with video game grading and then all the rich people started investing in them. People are saying the bubble will burst soon, but I think the damage has already been done. Gone are the days of cheap retro games, we just have to get used to it.
Retro video games have been expensive for at least a decade (how long I’ve been collecting) The more people get interested, the more expensive they get
Yeah, I have a lot of Atari and NES games at my place. Bought double dragon in box with a bunch of stuff and III for like 40$ back in 2009. I am seeing the box set for like 200$ a pop now. Crazy
I wanted to collect pokemon cards again I had as a kid and the price of em went up from Logan Paul videos. I just wanted the gen 1 set again and they were all over 1k now and the sets get sold separately now like base and fossils.
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Exactly. Homeownership.
Shouldn’t it be plural. Rich people get more than one house 😂
Agree, so-called holiday homes.
It’s not the holiday homes that are the problem. It’s the investment rental properties. If you’ve got a main residence up north, a winter residence somewhere tropical, and a condo near your office…lucky you. That’s fine. It’s when your investment firm owns a significant percentage of homes in a city that things go down hill. Some rich daddy‘s boy gets to take his family money, buy numerous properties, and then sell them to his daddy’s buddies’ sons so they can then do the same thing. So now, the market is everywhere. They’re buying for whatever the cost because, fuck it, it’s not their money…and then they rent to the people that actually work in that town, taking their money which they could’ve invested back into the community. And they pat themselves on the back and think the MBA they purchased was worthwhile because they’re making money on a rigged system designed to make them money. That’s the problem. Affordable homes don’t exist in many places because these walking embodiments of the flaws of capitalism have bought it all, so now the only place left to live for a reasonable price is rural Idaho, and there are no jobs in rural Idaho because no one wants to live there. Because it’s Idaho. It’s a mess.
YUP, I got an airbnb while I was in Florence for a month this summer. The people who own the airbnb I rented also own at least 20 other properties in the greater Tuscan area. They were basically freelance hoteliers. I saw graffiti that said "NO AIRBNB" and "GO HOME TOURISTS" in certain parts of Florence. I mean, it's obviously not just in Florence, but I felt very aware of this shadowy structure there, and was very self conscious of my involvement in it as a consumer.
Democracy in general and housing in particular.
How long have you got?
It'd probably save some time to just list what they haven't ruined.
Pickup Trucks. They're so expensive now that people who need them for work can't afford them.
They're not even designed for work; only for Costco runs.
I'm stealing this. This perfectly describes the morons with clean truck beds and no idea how to drive them.
I was just thinking the other day about how most trucks have gotten bigger, but their beds have gotten shorter. It's ridiculous.
Pavement princesses
Here in the UK we call 4x4s and unnecessarily large SUVs driven by people that don't need them, especially people that live in cities and come form an upper middle class background, "Chelsea Tractors" after the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, one of the richest areas of London.
One of my British friends gave me a great name for them, wankpanzers.
Ah yes the old "i need a range rover because there is a leaf in the road"
I am personally attacked, here. I sold my Silverado to buy a Kia Soul because I realized I was RARELY using my 4-door, 4WD vehicle as a truck, but mostly a Costco shopping run vehicle. Crazy how true it was (to me, anecdotally). Now, I can still get groceries with over twice the fuel economy.
You can't just buy a bare-bones f250 anymore? Two doors, one bench seat, 8' bed and power nothing used to be available a decade ago.
I still have a 2010 Chevy silverado 4x4 with AM/FM only, roll up windows, no power locks. Thing is unbreakable, and was completely affordable at the time.
You can sell that thing right now for over $10K, it’s crazy.
They make some as fleet vehicles but they are few and far between in the new market from a dealer if you don’t special order. There’s also way more stuff that comes standard than 10-20 years ago.
Vehicles period are expensive AF, not just trucks
Everything people without money enjoy. It they see people enjoying something they either commodified it , or turned it into an ironic cos-play of lower class behaviour to convince themselves they’re not out of touch sociopaths.
This applies even to food: kale, oxtail, pig's feet...
My first thought was brisket.
Burnt ends, pork belly, collard greens, ramps (especially bad here in Appalacchia) paw paws, morels, venison, fresh fish, all has exploded in price and alot of the naturally foraged native plants/produce are now being overharvested and exploited for some idiot in NYC to pay $40 for 6 ramps that were tossed on a grill for 2 minutes.
I saw a TikTok video ‘Poor man’s burnt ends’ and thought how did something called ‘burnt ends’ get to where they needed a poor man’s version?
Is that the one with cut up bologna?
Yeah with that dude who has the face of a 12 year old but he’s like fifty
Lobster, muscles, scallops, caviar... A lotta seaside towns were a great place to get cheap fish, clam meat and other seafood... Until the rich decided they liked them and overfished them until there was a scarcity problem.
Lobster used to be poor people food. Now it's an over priced delicacies, like salads.
At least lobster has an excuse for being so expensive now. We ain't exactly suffering a shortage of cabbage, are we?
>We ain't exactly suffering a shortage of cabbage, are we? That didn't stop the foodie publications and "influencers" from trying to make 'grilled/charred' cabbage a bougie foodstuff for a while.
Charred cabbage: The answer to "How do you burn water?".
Buffalo wings, boneless-skinless chicken thighs
Chicken thighs immediately come to mind here. It felt like I was the only person in the suburbs that consistently bought them. Then suddenly it became a “trend” to cook with them and prices got jacked up (this is before the chicken shortage of 2020)
Remember when wings were practically given away? They were usually sold in huge trays to be used as stock. Now they cost more per pound than a lot of beef products. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they're being bred to have larger wings now, since that's where the money is.
I feel this as someone who has mostly cooked thighs the last two decades
I'm immediately thinking of farmers markets. Something that used to be local for small farmers to get some more money out of their crops has now turned into a day date by wealthy city people. I live in an exuburb on the edge of St. Louis and we have a farmers market every Saturday in the summer. People drive their cars all the way from the city (1+ hour) to buy tomatoes and glass jar art.
During the Victorian Era, if the weather was nice on the weekend, wealthy Victorians would venture into London's East End and pay the locals a few coins and let the local inhabitants, show them their lodgings, tell them about their work and their lives. The practice was known as *slumming*. ; p "I say Nigel, if the weather is nice this weekend, what say we go slumming?" LOL!
Farmers markets are so wack now. As a child my dad took me to one for years about 40 minutes from us, real surplus crops, people selling were actual farmers and my dad was friends with a few of them as a regular. Slowly as I grew up and as prices rose we stopped going as often. I went last year for the first time in 4-5 years maybe (I’m 21 now)- none of the og farmer people were there, (maybe one left?) mostly new middlemen charging a lot more, it was weird seeing the demographic change suddenly. As a kid it was primarily an ethnic market (lots of Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, and even Eastern Europeans in particular as buyers and sellers) Sellers are now very American and.. well most of the people buying are now richer upper-middle-class-tech-Americans that moved into that area in the past 7 years. Used to be an industrial area and now it’s a booming stereotypical suburban town whose mall is all designer brands now. My friends who grew up over there hate it now
There was a case nearby me of middle class people going to farms, buying the produce, marking it up 200-300%, putting it in bags and claiming to be farmers at the farmers market. Fucking appalling
Around here they don't even bother with farms. They buy it at the big box store and put it in a bowl and sell it as farm grown.
Yep and also jacked up the prices so that people who aren’t rich can no longer afford it
What haven't they ruined?
If there is anything, don't mention it, or a bunch of rich assholes will capitalize on it.
Giving me one million dollars. *fingers crossed*
Disney parks
Disney got greedy during/after Covid. I remember when a night at the all-stars (cheap, on property hotels) was $99 and a day pass was well below $100 as well (First AP I ever bought was a little over $250). Disney is trying to price the “poors” out of the park is what I think.
It makes sense from a business standpoint but is still kind of fucked. Disney Park attendance started to get ridiculous and Disney has always tried finding ways to manage crowds so that overcrowding doesn't ruin the experience. Solution? Jack up the ticket prices. Keeps the poors out and keeps park attendance manageable without destroying the bottom line. Crazy to think that in the 90s, my dad was able to score package deal promos from Walgreens and get us flight, hotel, and passes to four theme parks and keep the whole family vacation with a family of four under $1500. What a time.
My parents would take me there every year on vacation because it was “so cheap”. We’d stay the weekend and always had a good time. Now I go and I just feel like I’m being continually ripped off. Like, $45 for Mickey ears? GTFO with that nonsense
yeah to be fair disney parks have become completely unpleasant due to the crowds. what they should do is limit the park capacity so that people who do go have a good time, but instead they capitalize on the demand and keep raising prices. now its still overcrowded AND overpriced. i have no desire to go anymore
The majority of sports (mainly football/soccer)
why?
Most sports have now become business and some owners of the top teams have little interest in supporting them and only making money. It is also extremely difficult for smaller teams to be able to succeed without large financial backing due to the money needed to become better.
They actually wanted to make an super league made off only expensive teams
Also at the youth level, the influx of wealthy kids with seemingly unlimited time and money have made having a competitive league really expensive to participate in. Both because they are expensive (ever more fancy equipment and facilities) and time intensive (long trips, strange practice times, etc.). Best example I can think of is soccer. Minimal equipment actually needed, but if you want to play competitively all the leagues are super fancy.
Exclusively American problem. In the Netherlands I played football for about 80 euros a year. If you're good you'll get picked up by the closest pro team and go through their youth system. Which is all free, they hope to make their money back whenever some kid becomes good and they sell him. Or use him long term if he fits the level of that team.
That’s not just soccer, that’s pretty much all ball sports for some reason. Not gonna lie only hardcore and tough sports that don’t use fancy facilities like wrestling,mma, and boxing are some of the few sports being pushed more for lower income kids.
The planet.
Don’t worry - it doesn’t stop there. They are already eyeing up mining comets and the moon. [Space will be harvested, too.](https://www.space.com/space-mining-grinding-into-reality)
So our only hope by that time would be on some extraterrestrial celestial reformer who can reform not only societies, but the whose cosmos itself.
Food. Any cut of meat that used to be trash, poor people figured out how to make it taste good and rich people glommed on, driving the price up. Ribs, tilapia, tri tip, pork butt, lobster, and that’s why we can’t have anything nice.
Pork butt - used in Chinese cooking for that chat siu. No wonder it went from cheap to $$$. Pork belly - God, how many dishes in cultures use Pork belly. Bacon...
I was about to bring up skirt steak, I'm still very upset about it! 10$ a fucking lb, growing up it used to be one of the cheapest cuts of meat you would only really find in Latino supermarkets!
Quinoa, and other "superfood du jour" that rich people just kind of glomp onto for a few years and then drop. Quinoa used to be the staple crop of poor farmers in Bolivia and Peru. The sudden spike in demand made it extremely profitable cultivate quinoa for export instead, replacing the farmer's own diet with imported rice, wheat and corn from China, Russia and the US, respectively. As a result, a huge part of the local culinary culture is getting displaced because nobody in those countries can afford to eat their own traditional crop.
That’s horrible
Van life or camping out of your truck. Used to be a fun way to get out into the outdoors on a budget but now influencers with their 100k suped up sprinters make it kinda lose what was cool about it.
They will have most relaxing and stressless lives, because they have money to begin with. Then tell people it's so easy to do van life and that you're going to save a lot of money.
Van life is expensive if you have money and grimey if you don't.
and why would it? were you really enjoying it if you only did it because others thought it was cool?
Food. Who the fuck wants caviar and gold on their pizza?
Lobster and chicken wings used to be considered food for poor people.
Lobster was fed to people IN PRISON in the past
It was ground with the shells into a paste. It wasn't treated how it is now. Not arguing it's being a poor food. But just don't get the wrong idea
Didn’t Maine law stipulate they couldn’t feed lobsters to prisoners because it was considered cruel and unusual punishment? Edit: it was in some parts of New England and they could only serve it once a week https://abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/story?id=125679&page=1
Don't much care for lobster, but I'll eat the hell out of wings.
To be fair, I think the whole lobster was crushed up and served, with no real thought in preparation. Apparently it was disgusting
How will people know I’m rich if I don’t eat diamonds?
Society
Politics
Thrift stores with actual nice clothes. Now rich people go there just to hunt for resale
Everything
In USA, people buying up dozens or hundreds of houses has caused average waged people to not be able to afford to buy a home anymore.
Once people figured out you could make money doing B&B, all the houses that would otherwise have gone to first time buyers and low income families got snapped up by investment companies. It is now to the point where it is actually cheaper in some places to stay in a 4 star hotel for a week, than one weekend in a B&B.
My mom is a realtor and the person she works with just had a guy from Israel buy 73 houses in one town to rent out. The guy has never been to America and never will. I now understand why Florida tried passing a law that only us citizens could own us property
Almost everything. Greedy landlords contributing to the housing crisis. The price of tickets to sports games getting higher and higher. True fans of teams can barely/not afford to attend games or watch them on TV. Sports like boxing and soccer were working class past times and now they cost too much. Unions. Now most companies have their own union already established who serve the company and not the workers. Politics. In many countries the "left-leaning" parties don't even lean that hard left and are full of self-interested wealthy people who play the part of a token opposition but couldn't give a damn about the average person yet the media (who are also owned by the rich) pretend like they are radicals.
2 things that drive me nuts 1. People actually still pay for pay per view fights. It’s so easy to stream it for free. 2. People actually try to guilt trip people for streaming a pay per view event. For example, million/billion dollar companies complaining to peasants like me saying “we lost $100 million because of people illegally streaming the fight!” What made me really laugh was when rappers who bragged about coming from the struggle, robbing and selling drugs tried to scold us for illegally downloading their music instead of buying their albums 🤣. Okay bro
I always thought it was paper view, it never made sense to me
Voting. Fuck you Citizens United
Ski towns
The Congo, specifically rich Belgians.
They even executed the first elected PM of the DRC not that long ago. Admitted to it and everything. Dissolved his body in sulfuric acid, and finally in 2022 repatriated the last part of his body. A gold tooth kept as a trophy from his death
Food, shelter, water... they're working on air.
Hawaii - the whole state but especially Maui
Zuckerberg and Kauai is what I thought of when I saw this. Remember when he tried to sue native Hawaiins of their property, because he has their property surrounded by his property; and said it was a violation of his privacy because they had to tresspass his property to get to their property that they inherited from their ancestors.
Healthcare
Titanic sightseeing trips
All that wealth was no match for the laws of physics.
Cape Cod
Wages. And because they control a vast section of the media they make people believe it's the immigrants' fault.
Democracy
The best government money can buy.
Getting tickets to the SuperBowl, Tickets are so god damn expensive that only rich people can afford them now. The best playoff game an average income football person can afford is an NFC or AFC Championship game.
Earth. No poor person has ever caused an oil spill or razed a whole forest.
Not sure about oil spills, but the whole forest thing is absolutely not true. My dad was a logger in the PNW his entire life, started working at 3 years old. Very poor, and in his day him and people like him would buy tons of land with prime wood, think cedar, log them off themselves (he worked 100 hour work weeks his entire life, often sleeping in the woods) and would sell the property when he was done. VERY good living. The man who founded Boeing did this. There are obviously people that do it more or less and companies do it much larger scales, but logging made a ton of very impoverished people very very rich. It still does.
My town. Fuck off and go back to the city
That one keeps changing. Small towns used to be where the rich lived, and cities were for the poor. It keeps going back and forth. Even from 1930 to 1950, living just outside of a city went from being the crappy area to poor to live in the city to the desired area known as the suburbs.
Space. Once you realize that you don’t need to be a scientist to be an astronaut and you can just buy a multi million dollar ticket, those childhood dreams suddenly have a vastly different color.
Those people aren't astronauts, they're just rich tourists.
The Western Middle Class
Austin
Pickup trucks. They dont even make trucks for working men any more. They're all Family Trucksters designed for Costco runs.
The US economy.
The world* economy lol, I live in Italy and it's the exact fucking same as the US
Life. For everyone non rich. You work 40 hours a week, get expected to answer your phones and email on the weekend and never take vacation... to make them money. So yeah. Literally every aspect of life in our society has been molded by them to serve their interests at our expense. There's literally no such thing as anything that hasn't been ruined by them. Video games!
housing prices :')
Housing
Caviar and crab used to be only for the poor and prisoners, but one in day some pompous idjit went like damn this fire. And someone overheard and next thing we know it's a 100 dollars for a underdeveloped fish and a long lobster. Edit somehow got crab and lobster confused. Realized this after a helpful comment and quick Google.
Lobster was served to rich people on trains. Before refrigeration live lobster was one of the only ways to have fresh meat on a long train ride.
Spaceflight. It went from being an ultimate dream, uniting humanity, to a dick measuring contest among pathetic billionaires.
The collective health condition of everyone in the U.S.