"like the little leftist newbie on this thread is screeching"
Posted on 12/24/2022 11:29:10 AM PST by devane617
If you think back to when you were young (or even just back to a few years ago), it's obvious that many things in life that were once for the masses have become a whole lot more expensive. Well, redditor u/Lattethecoffeaddict asked, "What was ruined by rich people?" People had a lot of thoughts because the comments came pouring in, and here's some of what they had to say.
1. "Thrift shopping. I used to thrift a lot, but it's been ruined. I used to be able to go thrifting and come back with three new work shirts and a pair of pants for around $15 (and they were good clothes, too, some with the tags still on them). Now, good luck finding my size at all. Plus, the clothes that are left are all shit, and they want $10 for a shirt now."
3. "Bourbon. Once upon a time, the most expensive bourbon you could possibly find was like $100. Now, with everyone 'collecting' it, the prices have skyrocketed. The secondary market is completely absurd."
4. "Food trucks. They were once a convenient place to get good food for cheap. Now they're expensive and don't offer any of the advantages or comforts of a restaurant. Not to mention that they all expect a 20% tip for handing you food from a window."
5. "Trucks. Once upon a time, they were a humble, working-class vehicle for people who needed to be able to do things themselves. Now they are luxury vehicles with massive margins, which have become unaffordable to anyone who needs them to do real work."
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A lot of these have merit. This one above is particularly personal.
Several of my Colorado native friends have moved to South Dakota. I'll be retiring from the Navy in a few years and there's no way I could move back to Colorado, the state I was born and raised. Way too expensive now.
Plus, it's not the same state I left twenty years ago.
Yes, the article is talking about food trucks, but I am familiar with the roach coaches.
I used to work at a place where one that was run by a very nice married couple would stop in the morning (great breakfast stuff) and again at lunchtime with sandwiches, burgers, Frito pie, etc. They did brisk business and I was an enthusiastic patron.
That doesn’t mean that people who have enjoyed food items from the more trendy food trucks are bad people like the little leftist newbie on this thread is screeching. 😏
“What is a “400-mile garage sale?””
Same as what they call a 600 kilometer garage sale in Canada or Europe.
the allcaps folk make me crazy,
i imagine in real life they are wheeling around with a bullhorn.
I said a few years ago that I would consider Trump really, really successful as President if DC residential real estate lost value.
Didn’t happen.
A garage sale all up and down 400 miles of US Highway 68 in middle America. It goes through the town cuban leaf lives near.
Maybe vintage stuff is going up in value because there’s an underground, and maybe even unconscious, revolt against the whole “own nothing and live your whole life in front of a screen” mentality that’s being pushed on everyone.
On one hand, young people are the most addicted to digital technology. But they also seem to be the most interested in old stuff.
They’re the ones buying vinyl records now. Their parents threw all their records out when they were instructed to 35 years ago. Then they threw out their CDs when they were instructed to about 15 years ago.
Boomers are the most obsessed with being modern. They think it keeps them young to throw stuff out that they’re told is obsolete.....”I don’t want to be obsolete, so I’m gonna get rid of everything they’re telling me is obsolete....then I’ll still be relevant”.
For younger people, being modern is 2nd nature. But then they see this old stuff and say “wow, look at this!”
Winston Smith lives!
I am still driving my ‘96 Chevy 1500. Plan on driving till it dies. Helps it only has 104,000 actual miles on it. And it has a manual transmission.
“The Roach Coach is making it’s approach.”
That’s because of eBay and Etsy. You have professional pickers going to all the “antique” shops (which are really selling used stuff, not actual antiques), to the thrift stores and flea markets and garage or estate sales. Then they resell it online. This wasn’t a thing before eBay became popular. Clothes bought at Goodwill or Salvation Army get sold on Poshmark and its ilk.
Corvettes
I think the EPA killed them.
5. “Trucks. Once upon a time, they were a humble, working-class vehicle for people who needed to be able to do things themselves. Now they are luxury vehicles with massive margins, which have become unaffordable to anyone who needs them to do real work.”
That's just silly. I'm up early every morning making sure I have the lunch, the clothes, tools and materials I prefer, all of which go into the bed of my three-quarter ton pickup. At the grocery store I favor, there are pickups lined up one after another even these last couple days of thirty-below temps.
We probably live in very different parts of the U.S., but the pickups, large and small, carry a great deal of the country's light trucks to and from the jobsite, and its playthings also, true.
Surely you are right about buyers driving more vehicle than they need, but in winter, in building-boom times, just in the flow of ordinary lives, small trucks carry terrific amounts of materials, for work or play.
Stay warm in Minnesota!
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"like the little leftist newbie on this thread is screeching"
"the allcaps folk make me crazy"
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