This isn’t new. Anything DiY/hobby/YouTubeFodder related has shot up in price already, since Covid started.
Even the used markets for fabric, art supplies, wood, tools, old sewing machines that do 1 thing, have been crazy. Estate auction biddings on used sets of student grade garbage art supplies sell well above retail in the mad hunger for these items. ETA gardening/canning supplies.
Again though, as they make distraction less accessible (as with piracy crackdowns) they push the public into a more likely to riot state of being.
This isn’t new. Anything DiY/hobby/YouTubeFodder related has shot up in price already, since Covid started.
Even the used markets for fabric, art supplies, wood, tools, old sewing machines that do 1 thing, have been crazy. Estate auction biddings on used sets of student grade garbage art supplies sell well above retail in the mad hunger for these items. ETA gardening/canning supplies.
Again though, as they make distraction less accessible (as with piracy crackdowns) they push the public into a more likely to riot state of being.
This headline hints that it’s getting worse.