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.
Just read an article that said groceries have increased 9% in the last two years. That is not at all correct...it's at least doubled here in California!
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CNN actually reported the rising prices of many foods are due to "greedflation," stating people were willing to pay higher prices for food. . . as if we had a choice not to eat
Basics should be free (selected food staples, shelter, basic hygiene) and if you want fancier, better, have choice.... earn it. I guarantee you that once people have needs covered, they'll outdo themselves to get better
This is textbook communism but I'm not against it considering we are in debt purely due to our grocery bill.
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Yeah, I make enough to feed myself but I daily worry about others who can't. I"m a public school teacher )-;
Prices have gone up exponentially while my paycheck remains the same 🤷🏼♀️
Particularly in the UK. Weekly shop cost is rising, and rising, and rising.
And that is why I went to the food bank last week for the first time ever in my 71 years.
They act like we're all too stupid to notice things have gotten smaller and more expensive. I'm sorry, but I've *never* had to spend 75$ on a month of meat to feed my family. I could just feed them questionable animal parts I guess, hot dogs are still 2$ a package if I buy the brand that might have bone chips in it... Ramen guys. RAMEN is getting expensive. Ramen. I know other countries have it really bad, but I'm not in other countries, I'm in this one. I feel for them, truly I do. It can't be easy living in dirt, scraps or possibly nothing. But that's not going to magically put money in my wallet to afford all these jacked up prices. I need to feed my family. If I had any excess id feed other people too. I used to, but God forbid I try to buy a cabbage anymore. You know here we're not allowed to have our own gardens or collect rainwater? It's not like I can skate by on my own soil and hands.
This! Then they give us s**t about spending all of our money on fast food, when that is literally all we can afford compared to the $10 pack of f*****g strawberries that go bad in two days, and $35 for 1lb of beef. Ugh!
I was at store today and a small I mean small head of cauliflower was $6
Perhaps, however it's going to be a very short life.. 3 weeks without food and your body starts to ingest itself.
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You must live in Newfoundland, Canada; $8 & lasts 3 days before rotting
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Well thats what people get when they vote for Communist. That care about other countries then there own..
My favorite Low Budget Instant noodle rising the price like 5x nowadays. But not my salary 😭
Not just food. The battery in my renote start key fob died, so I was using the other one, well the other cold A** morning the second one died. Went to the store last night and they only had a 10 pack. For $22. Now what really pisses me off, is that both remotes take different batteries, and a 2 pack of the other kind was $8. So I bought a 6 pack of battery operated tea lights, since they use the same batteries, for $3.49 and then paid the $8 for the other ones. To top that off, this is the second or third time, depending on which remote, that I have changed the batteries on a 2016.
In a matter of months! I cannot believe how little I get for my money. Good thing I like pbj.
You do realize that this is a GLOBAL Inflation, right?
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It's even worse if you have to have to follow a specific diet (gluten free comes to mind).
The amount we pay for food just to s**t it out the next day is ridiculous.
We live on soups for now. I'm hoping I can feed the kids something more enjoyable soon, but probably not. I can't even buy a small bag of flour without breaking my bank.
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And you have to choose between paying rent or food. I chose food. But not I might be homeless soon 😭.
We're actually seriously considering getting a van and living out of it. But I don't want to put the kids through that. I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to do man, rents gone up to 1900 now. I say "I can work, let me work more hours" and they just send me home after three. Who can live like this???
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My friends are joking about the price of a Fredo... It's so much more now
There is plenty of affordable food! Learn how to budget and use more vegetables and meats like the Russians.
An ugly medium size turnip, root vegetable, is almost $5!!! And meats are outrageously overpriced too!! Tell me how and where fresh healthy food is low priced????
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Keep demonizing the energy industry. Making it harder and harder to domestically produce gas and fuel... and the prices with continually increase for everything. Not just food. It's like people have no clue why food costs what it does? You have Europe banning fertilizers, meaning less food per square acre. So costs go up. People who have no idea how economics works but will cry to high Heaven when their morning coffee is 15$ a cup.
It has both gotten worse and better my friend. I can feel you're very angry, and I am too. If minimum wage bothered to keep up with inflation, I'd be making almost 30$/hr right now. No, no let's go ahead and keep it at half, *at most*. But good things have happened too. However angry you are, no matter how bad it is, never lose sight of whats true. The truth is far more important than religion, political loyalty or some such nonsense. Just make sure to keep going, you got this.
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I think you spelled "inflation with stagnant wages" wrong. And l'm old enough to remember when inflation was 20% and YET people didn't have to resort to food banks to eat.
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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.
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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