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RE: hobbies on the steem blockchain
Well... hobbies have really died.
Just look at Michaels. It used to have a great big section of model kits, now its almost an end cap. Lately when i go its just isles and isles of cheaply made, out of cheap stuff (wood, foam) things to glue together to make cheap chotskies.
Further, people are just barely making ends meet. Houses cost so much that you basically just rent them your whole life after paying 3% down.
And shop class has all but disappeared.
So, hobbies, that we used to know, just aren't there any more.
Yeah, that's a lot of what I've been seeing. The other thing is that the people who still are into these hobbies are buying most of their kits and supplies on line instead of the local store. A place like Michael's isn't going to carry much of a product that doesn't sell very well. The on line competition is hard on a lot of hobby stores.