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.
Affordable homes
I have an affordable home. The neighbors a couple doors down are drug dealers, when we called in one of another neighbor's daughters being kidnapped in broad daylight the cops told us we should have minded our own business, and we fall asleep to the soothing lullaby of gunfire most nights, but it's affordable. Well, relatively speaking...
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Affordability in general. If it'll actually help not just mask something it'll no longer be affordable.
I hate how boomers verbally attack millennials and other younger generations for this. "When I was 21, I owned my own car and home!" they say, but they don't know how messed up the economy is. Inflation is progressing faster than our wages and a recession has been predicted next year. Like, we pay more in rent than their mortgage payments, our bosses are greedier and give us less pay than we deserve, people are running around with devices that scan money off your cards... Humanity is crumbling. As the old saying goes: "Earth has enough to satisfy every man's need, not every man's greed."
It's not just boomers, considering my great aunt is one and she's nicer than any boomer I have met, but even some gen x, millennial, gen z, and on the rare occasions silent generation. My great grandma is 95, and does just about everything you put in that comment, and she's manipulative, among other things.
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Slowly coming to terms with the realization that in this life I will not own a home :(
Depends on where you live or are looking to buy. Where I live, homes are 20-30% cheaper in the suburbs than in the city.
Will it though? Price is proportional to supply over demand. If demand is population and that goes up faster than supply of housing then prices have to go up overall.
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Just bought my first place two years ago. It is doable. Houses in my area are cheap.
Yea but dealing with harsh reality that you never really own your home in the US. Stop paying taxes and see how long it's your home. Buying a house is really just paying a lot of rent up front to have more flexibility and responsibility lol
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1 room apartment shared with a drunk man with a love for the drums but no skill? That'll be $5000 per month
Misleading. Affordable homes have been out of reach since the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Unfortunately there's a lot to thank for that. But government programs like section 8 are a huge driver of sky high rents. It's unfortunate those programs are so heavily abused because it hurts everyone. If a landlord accept section 8 he is going to try and levy the max rent the government will pay especially because of the headache that comes with it. People that use section 8 don't care because they're not paying for it. This in turn causes all the landlords that don't accept section 8 to raise the prices in the neighborhood. Because why not right? Market value and all
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Affordable homes haven't really existed for a while. Unless cardboard box forts count.
I don't think a house has been affordable in my entire life, and I'm 44 next week. ...Oh and there's that mortality hit. Yup. Gonna go cry now. Lol
As a recent high school graduate (1978), I worked for a company building starter homes (1200 square foot ranchers). All the build now are townhouses and mcmansions.
It was more affordable to buy a house during the Great Depression than it is now. Wow.
When I bought my first house (1993) I got a 100% mortgage-didn't need a deposit, didn't need a guarantor, all I had to do was sign an agreement that I would stay with that lender for 3 years. I went to university at a time when tuition costs were free, and students just paid for accommodation and living expenses. I look at my stepkids now, they're all teenagers, and it's so worrying about what the future holds for them. If they go on to college, there'll be huge debts taking years to pay off at the same time they will be saving for a house. They fully expect never to be able to buy their own home, but rented accommodation is very limiting, at least where we live. There's a horrible feeling of impermanence, not able to redecorate as you please, no pets, no outdoor space, having to think carefully about furniture and possessions and how they'll fit into someone else's space. It definitely worries them too, they want to be independent, but might not be able to afford to be.
I can't seem to explain this to my mum. She's like "It's fine, you'll be able to afford a house". No actually, you bought your house about 15 years ago and it's already tripled in estimated value, and it's literally falling apart.
A good start would be if the started building smaller homes. You know, actual starter homes, for people who don't need 4+ bedrooms, and 3 floors so no one sees each other.
Yes. The housing market is a monopoly. A few companies buy huge plots of land, sell it for up to 10 times what it should be sold for, and the housing market is based off of that. The housing market is literally worse than it was during the Great Depression.
Even in 2022 Market, )I could have a lovely home (NOT a McMansion) for what I pay in rent. But, when you add Realtors Fees (not commission), Inspection fees, and the down payment, it ain't happening!
Is it true 30% of Americans live in trailers? Nothing against trailers per se, however it does seem sad considering how much land there is in the US.
No I don't think so but you're be surprised at trailers a lot of them you can only tell are trailers because there's no basement. I've seen trailers way nicer than ranch style homes
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I think i got the actual last affordable home on the california central coast 10 years ago. And this is a mobile home. Theres a single wide mobile home in my park going for 500k initially, then you still have space rent! WTF!?
They were a reality in Houston until id**ts from CA decided to move here and started offering more than 50% over asking price, because houses were cheaper than there. Less than 2 months after I got mine, a house across the street, same model and shape, sold for 40% more to the first couple that saw it. It was just the start.
In Calgary Canada...1990 our house cost $80 000. Today that house would cost $400 000.
They haven't been affordable since my Granny ordered her floor plans/blueprints from Sears catalog in the fifties n they built themselves. Cost total $15,000. They sold the 70y.o house $275,000!! Good condition but still, city turned to s**t since they built and houses all close together n highway around block NOT worth it. With inflation way is this year, they have raised interest rates and rent has went up 50-75% in last year in year half in city we r in. Friends house they rented 3 years was paying $700 small 2 bed 1 bath 700sqft. Now renting at $1200 NO renovations!!!
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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