Trade the community for a couch. Concert, movie and sports events have become luxury items. Alcohol consumption declining which is a good thing. Gyms have grown.
America is running out of places to gather:
Bars and clubs per capita have fallen over 60% since the late 1970s, and since 2001 a fifth of movie theaters have shut their doors.
Over the past two decades, the country has lost roughly 2,000 golf courses and 7,000 bars and… pic.twitter.com/35pN349ApR
— Hedgeye (@Hedgeye) July 5, 2026
I know! Sad, I took my two nephews to “Young Washington” the other day. $30.00 for 3 tickets and $40.00 for popcorn and sodas! That’s why! Plus, there were not very many people in there! The movie SUCKED!
All that kind of stuff just takes away from “quality cell phone time”.
Lets see, take the family to the movies or buy groceries. When corporations buy their own stock to artificially increase it’s value, it’s not difficult to understand that this form of capitalism is eating away at the value of monopoly money.
We boomers did this gathering stuff before we turned it into ‘upscale, high end’ big business since 1995+or-.