I dunno if this is the best place to write this but I mean, this is the popular leftism subreddit so lets do this.
I was watching an ASMR video, yes I know that's a weird way to start, it was a cute little 30 minute video where you checked into an inn. Thing is, I noticed just how luxorious the inn was, considering an inn is supposed to be a cozy little place to check in for the night, and than I noticed this is everywhere. Things that are romantic specifically for their cheapness, or I suppose their availability, have become way less availabe by the day.
Living off the land is by far the best example, by design it's a concept that is romantic because of the idea of NOT spending money, about instead of buying eggs and meat and bread and corn, you can grow them, the romance comes from yes also just the feeling of working the land, but also from the idea of living simply. Now, that idea of “living simply” can only come true if you have way too much money to really live simply, a house with enough acres of land, a barn or any shelter for that matter, a stable fence, consitant supply of food, and for more complex stuff farming equipment.
Another good example is a place like the Vonn Trapp Family Lodge, I went there with my family one time, and the entire feel was sort of an inn, except expensive and large. I've noticed this a lot lately, how coziness and availability is so romanticized that it's lost it's availability.
IDK maybe that's just how capitalism is supposed to work but I just thought it's pretty weird