What thing was ruined because it turned into a rich person's hobby?

>$300+ per ticket. And that's for a c*** team like the panthers! Aren't those the prices for a full day at a Disney theme park?? Even that sounds like a f****** crazy amount of money to spend on a day where you are either spending more money or standing in lines most of the time.

The minor leagues are called the UFL now. They play "spring football". The season is about to start actually.

If it's any consolation the monthly unlimited pass is also $25

Not just the corporations. It's now become a whole thing to go to big concerts with the sole intention of recording the it to post on YouTube for Adsense money. It would be nice if they would give them their own little section to be boring in like they used to do with the tapers at Grateful Dead shows.

The merchandise is crazy expensive too. I used to work for a company that did concert merch and everything is made as cheaply as absolutely possible. They markup cost of goods by at least 5x but sometimes 10x. There’s no reason other than greed that this stuff needs to cost an arm and a leg.

Buddy owns a hobby shop. He's almost had to call the cops a couple times when scalpers freak out on him. He has a strict 1 item per customer rule on new product release so everyone has a chance. One guy waited outside the door for like 5 hours for him to open. Then proceeded to freak the f*** out because he couldn't buy everything my buddy had on restock.

Both the scalpers and the h******* monetizing it all. Every stream it feels like is opening and showing prices on everything instead of enjoying and appreciating the art on the illustration cards, or even the regular cards. Kids by me now in my card shops I play at care more for the value of the cards than anything else it seems

I blame "Investors" who don't want their cards to lose value, we should be reprinting the shit out of every card so anyone can make a deck on the c****, then let investors hoard the cbb so they can have their precious value.

This is exactly why I don't understand the appeal of card unboxing streams. So... you're not even building a deck with them? You're just opening them, feigning excitement for five seconds, then moving on to the next card?

They used to laugh at me for playing video games. Goes to show.

Yes. I used to be able to walk into a Goodwill at noon on Tuesday and get an entire hardback book series for a few dollars, books that sold in used book stores for $30-$100 each depending on series and printing. Now all of that stuff never hits a shelf and is sold on their very profitable website. Also used to be able to find some incredible vintage albums, vintage cookware and bakeware, vintage dishes and silverware, and vintage furniture. All of it is sold on their website now. So much for moving into a new place and outfitting it with all new-to-me MCM decor.

Seriously, it's ridiculous. I live in SF and there's plenty thrift stores, there's a particular vintage thrift store I despise, it smells bad inside and old tops that's probably from the 70's, good candidates for repurposing for the very c**** price of 50. This is before the pandemic, when I visited it again last year, it still smells, and a well used Michael kors pants is 75, doc martens for 120---- and all these can be bought brand new for the price! These rich hipsters really be jacking up the prices. Also, they call them boutiques 🙃

I blame Macklemore as well, but that song still slaps

Reminds me of when Elon Musk was caught buying a maxed-out account on some online game and claimed he was really good at it, but even casual observers could tell he was full of shit.

Holy shit it is. I'm gonna date myself, but in the late ninties I saw probably 10 shows a year, think of a rock artist that sold more than a million records from 1993-2008, and * was probably there or at least considered it. Bands like: Radiohead, tool, nine inch nails, pearl jam, the red hot chili peppers, the smashing pumpkins, metallica, the Deftones, Foo Fighters, Weezer, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Green Day..the list goes on and on. I would buy general admission(pit admission) typically for about 28 bucks. That's probably 50 in today's money. And the experience was cool. If you lived in the area, you bought the tickets at the venue, and they let people into the GA area first come, first serve. So if your fav band was in town, all you had to do was buy a pit ticket, and show up like 6 hours early, and that would guarantee you the front row. And you would meet all sorts of fans while you waited. And during the show, no phones. They didn't exist like that back then. Now, I just don't go to shows. Billy Strings is playing in a few weeks. I looked, grass seats on the edge of the amphitheatre start in the multiple hundreds. If you want to get close, triple that . It's f****** depressing.

Ripping off regular people is the rich ppl people hobby 

They're the only ones still able to pony up for events now, though.

Oxtail, chicken wings, chuck roast, beef neckbones, fish for frying (perch, tilapia, etc), ground beef

Almost $40 for a 3lbs pack at Sam’s. Mom would make it when we were young since it was c**** or just given away at the butcher’s. 40years later it became as expensive as steak. And you get less meat due to the big bones.

No War But Class War!

I recently watched an excellent YouTube video about this issue. In essence it's corporate consolidation again > Rich kid's Talent Show - Winter Sports are out of control https://youtu.be/7Y1moFmYKu4?si=wfc_rP486l19jVvG

The secret with skiing is to buy everything for next winter now. You can get 26/27 season passes for less than $500 right now. Those will be like $4k by November though. Same is true for the airbnbs and hotel rooms, they’ll be almost an order of magnitude cheaper to book now.

'.and they do'like its some casual hobby 😭 meanwhile the rest of us are out here trying to unlock \*one\* house like its a legendary drop with a 0.01% spawn rate 💀

I work with a lot of rich/wealthy people in my line of work. Many of them totally lack the ability to empathize with those "below" them. They're selfish, self centered, and can be totally void of love. They're fueled by status, success, wealth, etc. They often have fucked up family dynamics and can be a nightmare to work with. Realistically it probably just pissed the dude off even more to hear your story. F***'em though, I'm proud of you and he deserved to hear your story. I'd rather be "poor" and have a loving family and be able to see the beauty in the little tyings in life than to be a slave to success/money. Some of these folks are the most miserable cunts you'll ever meet. Money doesn't buy happiness, it can truly sour the soul.

Disgusting

It's a fine line between living in a 1988 Chevy van down by the LA river next to some other wizened old drunks and crack heads, and living in a $300k converted Mercedes Sprinter 4x4 on the banks of the Colorado with your Instafluencer wife, wolf-dog hybrid and Starlink connection to your corporate marketing job in between the rock climbs you live stream.

Imagine being in high school in 1990, being a punk, skater kid with blue hair. Imagine being bullied by faculty and students for being a freak. Now imagine those same students all started going to the mall to buy clothes to dress like you. That they started talking to you like you were always best friends, inviting you to their parties. All because this one band, Nirvana became popular on MTV. Learned a lesson at how fast people will be flipped by a trend.

Teaching is one of the very few jobs that allows you to have a career and have the same time off as your children. Otherwise what the f*** are you supposed to do all summer and for all the breaks while your kids are off and you have to work?

That's part of why I stopped volunteering and working for the Austin Film Festival. They were taking submission fees from screenwriters to submit their works for competition but not reading the screenplays. They also had office staff opening movies in a background browser tab with films playing just so that it showed someone had screened them in the system thst the filmmakers at home see. Then they had fancy brunches and lunches for only the ceo lady and her inner circle of friends and not the staff. Most of the staff had 4 jobs each and most of that involved delegating to the volunteers to do anything. I had to piss and moan to get my paychecks. And that was only one non profit I've worked at. They're all the same. Non Profits are generally situations where the rich people who started them enjoy getting to explain to other people why they started them and make everyone else do the bullshit work with bullshit pay to make that bullshit vision come true.

Buy an 80s or 90s car and catch the next wave.

I'm curious where you live. I live in the Midwest and my local grocery store has a massive display of hundreds of bottles of Buffalo Trace for I believe $24.

This is also killing motorsports. NIMBYs move next door to a racetrack that has been around since before real estate track and probably brought in the money that made that part of the county desirable but then somehow Laguna Seca/Nuremburg ring/Le Mans becomes the problem.

To be fair, Legos have never been inexpensive. As a kid the only Legos we had were obtained via yard and rummage sales. The nice thing about Legos is that they last decades, it’s a toy that can be reused from kid to kid to kid.

But they used to have big pieces and base plates. Now they don’t,but are filled with tiny studs and 1x1 pieces.

I've heard a famous philosopher pose the question, "Why don't presidents fight the war?"