Funflation is fueling hobbies as Americans spend more on fun at home to avoid going out

11 comments

• wyldrstallyns1

  Oh, we're all-in on making up stupid AF "words", I see? Jesus, fuck this timeline running.

• ParlimentOfDoom8

  Oh look, it's 2008 staycations all over again...

• Pat_Riot4

  I've always buried myself in hobbies to avoid going out except when one of the hobbies is being in a gigging band.

• kibiz0r15via usa@lemmy.ml

  Funflation

  …

  I’m so tired.

  Every blatant indicator of the horrors of late-stage capitalism has to have a cutesy nickname and get repackaged as some quirk of consumer preferences.

  • eldavi2

    Every blatant indicator of the horrors of late-stage capitalism has to have a cutesy nickname and get repackaged as some quirk of consumer preferences.

    it works -- we literally have a secret police arresting lawfully abiding citizens and brutalizing them to the point of death and the overwhelming majority of americans refuse to accept that we live in a fascist state because it's not called the gestapo or the kgb.

• Zephorah16via usa@lemmy.ml

  This isn’t new. Anything DiY/hobby/YouTubeFodder related has shot up in price already, since Covid started.

  Even the used markets for fabric, art supplies, wood, tools, old sewing machines that do 1 thing, have been crazy. Estate auction biddings on used sets of student grade garbage art supplies sell well above retail in the mad hunger for these items. ETA gardening/canning supplies.

  Again though, as they make distraction less accessible (as with piracy crackdowns) they push the public into a more likely to riot state of being.

  This headline hints that it’s getting worse.

• Dr. Wesker9via usa@lemmy.ml

  All my hobbies are expensive as fuck.

• davel [he/him]8via usa@lemmy.ml

  Protip: playing with yourself costs nothing.

  • TropicalDingdong3

    Protip: we can all play with this guy.

    • davel [he/him]4

      Protip: consent, look it up.

• ProfessorYakkington2via usa@lemmy.ml

  Lol , expected some fun conversations but this thread was a lot darker than I thought it was going to be - I guess not unjustified.

  On a lighter note, I literally bumped into my thread while working on my 2nd Gunpla kit which has been a lot of fun. Thinking about taking up Yoyo as well.