The world is never the same place as it was the day before. Whether we're talking about environmental, societal, or other changes, it always keeps evolving.
So when Reddit user Firewire64 made a post on the platform, asking its users to name the things that are slowly phasing out in 2022, they received a lot of interesting insights.
We often miss prolonged, subtle processes. Having an opportunity to discuss them, even if it's online, can allow us glimpses into the direction we're all heading. So continue scrolling and check out the answers to Firewire64's question.
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Women’s’ rights
Yeah, I don’t understand why this is downvoted either… do people not think women’s rights are in jeopardy? I mean, if they don’t live in the US maybe nothing has changed in their world so this doesn’t impact them. Being American, Roe v Wade being overturned is terrifying to me.
Affordable food at the grocery store. It’s fine, it’s not like I need food to survive.
Privacy
Yep. In china, everything you do once you set foot out of ur home is recorded.
Social acceptance for cigarette smoking in public. Like the old-fashioned light-them-on-fire tobacco smokes.
I go all over for work, and it’s a noticeable event if someone smells like smoke. No buildings seem to have smoking areas anymore, even the butt cans are rare sightings. Can you even imagine someone lighting up *inside a restaurant*? People still do it, but they almost have to hide it, only smoking at home or in their cars or vaping while out and about. When you come out of a store and you smell cigarette smoke, it’s noticeable because it’s not always there. The difference from 10 years ago is huge. 20 years ago this would be unimaginable.
I am severely asthmatic and if I have to walk through some employee's cigarette smoke to enter a business, I turn around and take my business elsewhere. Not worth it.
NFTs
And I hope they continue to fall in popularity because honestly they weren’t even popular to begin with, just a fad peddled by the rich.
Faith in the future of humanity
I disagree. I come on boardpanda on a regular basis and I find my faith in humanity restored regularly
Leisure time. Unless you're wealthy it's shocking to have any time off. Monday I had my first sick day in over a year and I was told I still need to make up my hours even if it means working overtime.
Even when you aren't working, shifts are so long it feels like you're losing your whole day and your days off are the only chance you have to catch up on cleaning and doctor's appointments and maintaining your life that it's hard to find the time to do any leisure activities. Just watching TV or making a meal feels like such a time investment because there's so little time to waste.
DVDs.
It’s been going on for a bit now but it’s still crazy how fast they went from king to nothing
Given the cost of living crisis a lot of folks are cancelling their streaming subscriptions. Many are either buying 2nd hand discs and /or ripping their media to have portable collections - that they actually own 😃
Cash… 2022 has seen a sharp rise in card only transactions
Honestly? Cheap and neat finds at antique/thrift stores. Most places upcharge outrageous amounts for the items they get in, especially if it's a legitimate antique or unique item. On top of that, a lot of what's being sold now are nicknacks and decorative items that were made cheap at the time, and no one wants anymore.
I think we're also phasing out of the cheap product phase for everything, or at least slowing down. More and more people are choosing to repurpose their items or try and fix them, rather than just tossing and buying something new. Repurposing is even easier than ever thanks to the internet, it's no longer a struggle to figure out how to fix s**t and to buy missing parts and tools that you'd need to get the job done.
My local op shop has two buildings, one is the usual cheap things and cheap clothes and the other is the higher end stuff like vintage clothes or collectibles. It works well.
seen a few times in northern ireland makes christmas shopping easy, little coworker gifts in the cheap side family and best friends in the more high end
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The charity shop in my nearest city used to be really good but in the past 4 years the prices have skyrocketed. Used shirt that was identical to one I already had that cost me $6 to buy new a year ago and the store wanted $17 for it! My adult daughter was there a few weeks ago looking for cheap winter clothes for her 3. Most stuff was more expensive than buying the item new. Some items said brand new, so still available in the stores, but the price was $4 higher than going to the store next door to buy it retail.
Load More Replies... Op shops were once upon a time brilliance personified. Then the corporates took over and sodomised everyone. In five years there will be very little vintage, as in well made clothes left, no well made clothes are being made now or not purchased by the masses. Whats next down the line. What?
The problem with Goodwill is that if they know something is valuable, it is now pulled aside and placed on their auction website
Unfortunately, due to the general state of shittiness that makes up the global economy, as people focus on less disposable things there will be one of two results. 1) Products will be made so poorly that they'll be unfixable - planned obsolescence, or 2) Everything will be so proprietary they will become impossible to fix - more computers, subscriptions, specialized tool sets. The population will never again be able to focus on self sufficiency. BUT there will be an app for it with a 6 month free trial!
Goodwill used to have a 50 cent color (or was it 25) and a half price color all week. Now they just have the half color and the prices are insane. However, I discovered that the one by my sister still has the old system and low prices so I go once a month. I remember some elderly folks used to line up at the door for the color change on Sundays at the one by me. That no longer happens.
That started when "vintage" everything became popular. Second hand shops just started calling everything even a few years old vintage and jacking up rates. Then macklamore's song came out and every one and their grandma started hitting up thrift stores. The few that kept cheap prices would get wiped out of stock regularly. The only ones left seem to be run by homeless shelters.
I work at a thrift shop and I can confirm. Because of inflation, and the price of fuel for our trucks and supplies.. or at least that's their reasoning.. they have raised our price point averages. But because people are paying those prices, it is a profitable move for the company.
I have mixed feelings about this one. The up side of "used stuff is selling for more" is "people are seeing the value or reuse and used item stores are more popular than they used to be. There used to be a stigma like "only poor people shop at Goodwill or Value Village". Now that is much more "acceptable" and I feel that is a good thing. At least in the USA where we throw away way too much stuff that is still usable.
The thrift store I used to go to was next to an antique shop. I always saw the owner of the shop in the store.
Even Goodwill is for profit now. And the stuff they sell is also more crappy now.
Yet rich people will throw their entire wardrobe in the dumpster when they've worn it more than twice
Plenty of Dollar Stores out there and no end in sight of Salvation Army Stores. Cheap isn't going away.
A careful shopper at Goodwill can have a wardrobe full of silk, linen, and designer items for very little money.
I shop the second hand stores all the time. One person's junk is another man's treasure.
Depending on the state, Goodwill will only sell “quality” items on their website. Some states don’t care and will put the items out for sale. Years ago clothing was one price depending on the item, now they have a good/better/best pricing system and it’s still too much. Especially for a non profit.
Not as much. Used to be able to find good quality used clothes. Now its all that cheaply made c**p.
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It's the Wal-Mart problem, too. When Wal-Mart first came out, a big deal was made about how it was intended for people who couldn't afford shopping at bigger places. But suddenly everyone- rich and poor- started shopping there because even when you're rich you want a bargain. So prices eventually went up. I remember when Wal-mart first opened and the prices were truly low. A dollar for tools, 2 dollars for clothes...it was a huge deal. Add to that a culture of people 'restoring' things like you said as a business now, and thrift stores are starting to realize they can charge a lot more to the people going in there to buy out all the items they will resell on ebay or etsy, etc. People who are actually in need and go to those places to look for cheap items are getting screwed.
Term lengths of UK pm's
I've heard they've installed a revolving door at #10 Downing 😉
Having a savings account.
24 hour Walmarts
I live in a 24hr city, and I feel for those who work nights and struggle to do their shopping now.
I think the straw has broken the camel's back on laughtrack sitcoms; How I Met your Father is the first one ive seen in years to use one and its... not good
Its jarring to see
So id say those are finally phasing out, with the norm being laughteack free funnies (which have existed for years now ofc, but are becoming the standard)
Manned registers.
not in africa, we have too many unemployed people. We need job creation.
Would love to add:. Affordable new and used cars. Paying 30% more now for the same car on the lot two years ago is crushing
Here it is more expensive to get a used car than a new one because you have to wait 9 months for a new one to come in from the manufacturer (18 months for hybrids)!
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Anything giving an individual pleasure and or joy will soon be phased out because it will offend someone else.
DVDs (I'm going to include Blu-ray here as well) have been mentioned. Physical media for games and production S/w that one owns is disappearing as well. Depending on an unreliable Internet connection to prove ownership much less access to the software (and the user generated files) is a rip off. Mind you one could foresee this with Tax software in the '90s that made your income tax forms locked to the software.
Now I'm really depressed. Too much pessimism for me as an old person nearing 80. 😢
It's true though this is the world now. It's not pessimistic it's facts
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I thought it would be like technology but instead it's just pessimistic nonsense
Newspapers. One can still buy them, but why bother when everything is online?
True but reading an actual newspaper used to be a pleasure. And looking forward to the colour comics as a child? Good times! Too bad they are gone…
Load More Replies... I was just coming to say "people having different opinions and being civil about it". Freaking ridiculous how polarized everything is, and how much people dislike not being an echo chamber.
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I don't think anyone of reasonable intelligence has a problem with diversity of opinions, as long as they're backed up with rational arguments.
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Would love to add:. Affordable new and used cars. Paying 30% more now for the same car on the lot two years ago is crushing
Here it is more expensive to get a used car than a new one because you have to wait 9 months for a new one to come in from the manufacturer (18 months for hybrids)!
Load More Replies... Anything giving an individual pleasure and or joy will soon be phased out because it will offend someone else.
DVDs (I'm going to include Blu-ray here as well) have been mentioned. Physical media for games and production S/w that one owns is disappearing as well. Depending on an unreliable Internet connection to prove ownership much less access to the software (and the user generated files) is a rip off. Mind you one could foresee this with Tax software in the '90s that made your income tax forms locked to the software.
Now I'm really depressed. Too much pessimism for me as an old person nearing 80. 😢
It's true though this is the world now. It's not pessimistic it's facts
Load More Replies... I thought it would be like technology but instead it's just pessimistic nonsense
Newspapers. One can still buy them, but why bother when everything is online?
True but reading an actual newspaper used to be a pleasure. And looking forward to the colour comics as a child? Good times! Too bad they are gone…
Load More Replies... I was just coming to say "people having different opinions and being civil about it". Freaking ridiculous how polarized everything is, and how much people dislike not being an echo chamber.
Load More Replies... I don't think anyone of reasonable intelligence has a problem with diversity of opinions, as long as they're backed up with rational arguments.
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