I was reading somewhere that gambling has “become Americans favorite pastime”. That’s a sad state of affairs as it means people are trying to recover and make money rather than expanding themselves with art, culture and entertainment.
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Going out requires a car. Money to park a car, money for the event itself, money for drinks, money for games, money for food. THEN you can have fun. If you're broke too bad.
The cost of the goods and services has increased faster than salaries, as elsewhere in the economy.
Yeah, there's a place I wanted to go last night, but not only is it a two hour round trip, I have to pay for gas and mileage. So I stayed home.
We've really fucked ourselves as a society, building infrastructure that requires everyone to be wealthy.
America used to be wealthy, and developed a culture that expected that. Then more and more of the wealth was funneled into fewer and fewer hands. If America had maintained and grew its distributive structures, the impacts would still be a problem but the basic elements of survival wouldn't feel so difficult to obtain.
You bet. We are like the moose covered in ticks. Ever sector of the economy has been parasitized by oligopoly.
walks are free though.
Assuming you live somewhere with sidewalks.
There isn't anywhere to walk (safely) in my city. We don't even have a park. Never mind a severe lack of sidewalks. This city was founded in the 60s and the car-brain really shows in its planning :/
Sorry to hear :(
This is something my friend group does. We’re lucky to have some good parks and walking trails nearby and we just put in some good shoes and walk around. It’s good to catch up with them and we tend to run into the occasional deer or bunny or dogs on walks
Good for you and your friend group! This is the way.
And then you actually have people being upvoted on here saying that they should be expensive because “they are a luxury”.
Americans are more miserable than ever. The enshitification of basically everything has take a strangle hold on life itself. Something has got to give.
In my small hometown there used to be a go kart track & mini golf place that closed down a number of years ago. A bank was built in its place.
A few years later a locally popular/famous restaurant unexpectedly closed down, even the cooks & waiters were caught off guard. The owners sold the property to a different bank.
We had one too. It got knocked down to be storage for a construction company, so I have look at the skeleton of it on the side of the freeway every time I pass and think about what might have been. It was awesome. Mini golf, go karts, boat racing, arcade. It was one of my favorite places to go as a child. They also had batting cages which my dad took me to often to practice for little league. The closest ones now for my son are 30 minutes away.
Trying to hang out with my 5 siblings, to spend as little money as possible. Walk around the mall 30 minutes away, or the one 45 minutes away. Done that too many times. So we spend 60$ at a splash pad instead.
Millennials opening another bar+X combo: why don't people come here?
Can someone post the text, please? Recaptcha is tedious as fuck.
Yeah, that site is fairly toxic.
The secretive owner has been caught altering the content of the archive, and using the site to co-opt people's browsers to launch DDOS attacks on critics and such.
archive.is? that site? more information please