"It's Completely Absurd": People Are Sharing Things That Rich People Have "Ruined" For Everyone Else

If you deliberation backmost to erstwhile you were young (or adjacent conscionable backmost to a fewer years ago), it's evident that galore things successful beingness that were erstwhile for the masses person go a full batch much expensive. Well, redditor u/Lattethecoffeaddict asked, "What was ruined by affluent people?" People had a batch of thoughts, and the comments came pouring in; here's immoderate of what they had to say.

1. "Thrift shopping. I utilized to thrift a lot, but it's been ruined. I utilized to beryllium capable to spell thrifting and travel backmost with 3 caller enactment shirts and a brace of pants for astir $15 (and they were bully clothes, too, immoderate with the tags inactive connected them). Now, bully luck uncovering my size astatine all. Plus, the apparel that are near are each shit, and they privation $10 for a garment now."

2. "Formerly chill towns astir the country. Think: places similar Denver, Austin, Asheville, and more."

—u/ennuionwe

3. "Bourbon. Once upon a time, the astir costly bourbon you could perchance find was similar $100. Now, with everyone 'collecting' it, the prices person skyrocketed. The secondary marketplace is wholly absurd."

4. "Food trucks. They were erstwhile a convenient spot to get bully nutrient for cheap. Now they're costly and don't connection immoderate of the advantages oregon comforts of a restaurant. Not to notation that they each expect a 20% extremity for handing you nutrient from a window."

5. "Trucks. Once upon a time, they were a humble, working-class conveyance for radical who needed to beryllium capable to bash things themselves. Now they are luxury vehicles with monolithic margins, which person go unaffordable to anyone who needs them to bash existent work."

—u/Shulk_X

6. "Coastal property. My gramps bought a location connected Cape Cod erstwhile helium retired from being an hose mechanic successful the precocious '60s. He wasn't poor, but helium definite arsenic hellhole wasn't rich. Today, a mean middle-class idiosyncratic wouldn't beryllium capable to bash that. Even if you inherit a location escaped and clear, the spot taxes volition devour you live if you aren't made of money."

7. "Collectibles. In the past fewer years, the terms of small collectibles and things of that benignant has gotten incredibly high. I'm talking cards, Legos, enactment figures, you sanction it. Whatever your hobby is, radical are dropping your full wage successful conscionable 1 time for related collectibles."

—u/NoBenefit5977

"Nerd paraphernalia similar Star Wars oregon Marvel/DC worldly (action figures, comic books, etc.). Used to beryllium conscionable a amusive hobby for kids and kids astatine heart; present it's astir wholly purchased by rich, dedicated speculators solely for profit."

—u/eddy_talon

8. "Montessori schools. The method was created to springiness a bully acquisition to students successful request contempt small funding. Now it’s immoderate benignant of 'elite' schooling for $20,000-plus a year."

—u/newluna

9. "The authorities of Colorado. I was calved there, but present I'm everlastingly priced retired of my hometown. All my friends and I person moved due to the fact that we conscionable can’t spend to unrecorded determination anymore. It's mostly costly owed to housing, but skiing besides utilized to beryllium an affordable hobby that has go prohibitively expensive."

10. "Tacos. I precocious went to a taco nutrient motortruck wherever they enactment similar 100 ingredients connected 1 taco and charged $20 for it. I would alternatively spell to the Mexican spot down the thoroughfare and get a sheet of 4 tacos for $10."

—u/Themanwhofarts

11. "Previously affordable covering brands. Stuff similar Carhartt, Dickies, Levi’s, and truthful galore more. Why did a Dickies T-shirt spell from $15 to astir $40 successful conscionable a fewer years?"

12. "Concerts. You can’t adjacent bargain a brew astatine a performance these days for what a wide admittance summons utilized to cost, and radical inactive wage for it."

—u/Theplaidiator

13. "Music festivals. They utilized to beryllium a clump of hippies having a bully clip and doing drugs. Now it's each affluent kids taking selfies dressed arsenic hippies and doing drugs."

14. "Theme parks. Gone are the days erstwhile everyone was adjacent and you each had to queue unneurotic careless of your income. Now, if you've got heavy pockets, you tin leap the queue, making your time a small amended and everyone else's time a small worse."

—u/Lumber_Dan

15. "Lobster. At 1 point, this shellfish was considered to beryllium the 'cockroach of the sea.'"

16. "Cheap foods similar donuts, cupcakes, hamburgers, and wings that person each been fixed the 'foodie' treatment. These foods were transformed from good, inexpensive eats to gourmet bites demanding jacked-up prices...and without a corresponding summation successful quality."

—u/SonofSniglet

17. "Going to the theater. It utilized to beryllium amusement for the masses, and present it's ridiculously costly and inaccessible to astir people."

18. "Camping. It erstwhile outgo adjacent to thing to reserve a campsite. And portion immoderate are inactive affordable, present galore person gone each bougie. Some sites complaint you ridiculous fees conscionable to transportation a structure successful the woods."

—u/porquenolosdo2

19. "I stopped going to nonrecreational sporting games due to the fact that I tin lone spend the unspeakable seats. It's not worthy it anymore."

20. "Rental homes. The overabundance of Airbnbs and $2,000 workplace apartments successful rural/suburban places is outrageous and ruining the opportunities for low-income and working-class radical to person a extortion implicit their heads. I unrecorded successful New York state, and ever since COVID, each these affluent metropolis people are buying up each the inexpensive places successful the state and trying to marque a nett disconnected of them."

—u/Far-Gain-3081

21. "Old-school skis mountains with household vibes and stoner lifties rocking to music. We ever watched those silly 'ski patrol' movies astir large corporations coming successful and turning them into yuppieville...and past it happened."

22. "Burning Man. When Mark Zuckerberg is helicoptering successful to enactment successful a billionaire campy with air-conditioned mobile homes, Burning Man has officially mislaid immoderate counterculture lasting it ever had."

—u/jessek

23. "Toast. Hear maine out. Years ago, erstwhile I was counting pennies to get by, I would marque 'fancy toast' similar avocado toast, cinnamon-and-sugar toast, oregon peanut food banana toast arsenic a repast oregon snack due to the fact that it was ace cheap. I went to brunch a fewer weeks agone and saw avocado toast connected the paper for $11. WTF?!"

24. "Denim. Jeans utilized to beryllium inexpensive and durable, apparel you could deterioration for years doing hard labor. Now they’re costly and mediocre quality, and they travel with holes already successful them conscionable to mimic the aesthetic of the moving class."

—u/lettherebemorelight

25. "Cheap cuts of nutrient successful wide that utilized to beryllium for the poor. Pork belly and oxtail specifically person gotten jacked up successful price, present that radical cognize however delicious they tin be. When I was increasing up, oxtail utilized to beryllium little than $2 a lb — present it’s good implicit $10."

What are immoderate things that person been ruined by the affluent and privileged? Tell america successful the comments.

Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.