For most of the last half-century, the charge has been that American culture is stuck in adolescence. But adolescence, it turns out, was not the floor. Disney is leading the transformation, expanding into new age markets for maximum profit.
You have that wrong. The people who can afford Disney are the one who are living it up because they have all the money.
A Disney vacation for 4 now requires you to have an income in the 200K range. It’s for upper middle-class and richer people now. Everything in the park now has premium optional pricing, like the lightning passes to skip ride lines, etc.
The people who need the escapism, can’t afford Disney parks anymore.
My sister is the target customer. She’s in her 50s, her income is about 700K a year, and she goes to Disney parks twice a year and drops about 10-20K on each trip. But even she is getting pissed off at the massive price increases the last few years, she now only goes once a year instead of twice.
She has gone to Disney parks her entire adult life she since was like 25.
The people who can afford Disney are the one who are living it up because they have all the money.
Couldn’t be that they have money because they made the (right) choice not to raise kids in 2026, eh?
It’s also weird to say they have all the money. You’re conflating regular-ass, often childless consumers with the billionaire class. They are two very, very different things.
You’re conflating regular-ass, often childless consumers with the billionaire class.
Right? If anyone is complaining about how the people making 700k a year are spending their money, they have lost the plot and have failed to realize that they’re essentially in the same boat. Maybe a nicer part of the boat, but when the billionaire class decides “fuck the poor”, it doesn’t really matter what level of the boat you’re on, it will sink just the same.
You have that wrong. The people who can afford Disney are the one who are living it up because they have all the money.
A Disney vacation for 4 now requires you to have an income in the 200K range. It’s for upper middle-class and richer people now. Everything in the park now has premium optional pricing, like the lightning passes to skip ride lines, etc.
The people who need the escapism, can’t afford Disney parks anymore.
My sister is the target customer. She’s in her 50s, her income is about 700K a year, and she goes to Disney parks twice a year and drops about 10-20K on each trip. But even she is getting pissed off at the massive price increases the last few years, she now only goes once a year instead of twice.
She has gone to Disney parks her entire adult life she since was like 25.
Couldn’t be that they have money because they made the (right) choice not to raise kids in 2026, eh?
It’s also weird to say they have all the money. You’re conflating regular-ass, often childless consumers with the billionaire class. They are two very, very different things.
Right? If anyone is complaining about how the people making 700k a year are spending their money, they have lost the plot and have failed to realize that they’re essentially in the same boat. Maybe a nicer part of the boat, but when the billionaire class decides “fuck the poor”, it doesn’t really matter what level of the boat you’re on, it will sink just the same.
We must be better than crabs in a bucket.
Urgh. Was really hoping the vocally child-free evangelists from Reddit would stay there.