Mike
When you have an unlimited amount of money, you can do pretty much whatever you want. Sounds pretty great if you’re the one with all the money, but often times that can really suck for the rest of us.
The ultra wealthy have co-opted so many things the rest if us normal folk enjoy. From Burning Man to social media trends, rich people can really kill the vibe with how out of touch they are.
This reddit thread has people sharing all of the things that have been ruined by the wealthy. It got my blood boiling just putting it together.
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“I remember not long ago Champion was the cheap Walmart brand no one wanted. Now it’s an overpriced name brand. I don’t understand it.” — u/WashingMachineBroke.
“Champion is a brand people are shelling out for now? The ‘school says you absolutely must have a t-shirt for gym’ brand??? Good god” — u/sparrow_lately.
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“Was the first thing I thought of. When Mark Zuckerberg is helicoptering in to stay in a billionaire camp with air conditioned mobile homes, Burning Man has lost whatever counterculture standing it had.” — u/jessek.
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“And sporting events. Even NASCAR tickets are expensive, now” — u/Lakechrista.
“My god I swear basketball tickets are thrice as expensive as they were pre-pandemic” — u/tsgram.
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“Some of the countries best race tracks have dealt with this similar thing. Track gets build out in the boonies, boonies get bought and rich folk move in, complain about track noise, sometimes gets the track shut down. Personally, I believe some sort of ‘It was here first’ regarding things like parks and race tracks should exist to stop this from happening.” — u/TheSherbs.
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“My wife and I follow a Tiktok account of this guy who just goes into various thrift stores to show how absurd it is. Mug with no handle for a 1995 graduation party? $8.99 Used stick of deodorant? $4.99 Used birthday candles taped back up in original packaging that were sold at Dollar General brand new for $3? You can snag those up for $4.99 at Goodwill!” — u/WE-NEED-MORE-CATS.
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“New people bought the local mountain and they were desperately trying to find guys to work there. Lots of people were interested until they found out there was a mandatory drug test. Imagine drug testing your ski bums in a legal state, something tells me that policy is gone next year.” — u/thenerfviking.
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“Internet was the one I was going to go with. Back when the internet was just losers who had no other place in society everything was cool. You knew the only people online were people who genuinely wanted to be part of the community and subculture. Then the rich people found out about it, and now it’s nothing but ads, subscriptions fees, data gathering, and rich people pretending to be hip.” — u/bennitori.
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“Brisket used to be a leftover cut given to the workers who figured out how to make it awesome. Now we have brisket-flation and rich people smoking them on their $1500 Bluetooth enabled pellet smoker” — u/molly_777.
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“This underplays the hand Meta had in making sure Instagram developed this way. You can’t even scroll your own feed anymore without seeing shit from people you don’t follow and have no interest in following. It’s inescapable now.” — u/HellNaw98.
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