Have You Been Priced Out of a Hobby?
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🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:58.3 | From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on form, you've probably noticed that common hobbies from sewing to skiing have gotten more expensive. It's a dynamic that Atlantic staff writer Tyler Austin Harper calls hobby inflation. |
| 1:30.6 | And it not only affects your pocketbook, but also means fewer opportunities for personal fulfillment or community building. |
| 1:37.8 | Have you ever been priced out of a hobby? |
| 1:40.3 | Or what's an activity you'd be hard-pressed to give up no matter the cost? |
| 1:44.6 | We take a closer look this hour at what we lose when we can no longer afford our hobbies right after this news. |
| 1:59.2 | Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Hobbies are not essential by definition, but their value and |
| 2:05.8 | impact go beyond the sprinkle of personal joy they bring to our lives, which in itself is important. |
| 2:11.8 | And for a while now, hobbies have been getting more expensive, with tariffs the latest threat to the |
| 2:17.3 | affordability of many activities we do to come down tariffs the latest threat to the affordability of many |
| 2:18.4 | activities we do to come down from the stressors of daily life. So this hour, we take a moment |
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