re: Cost of living an inflation is bad, so why do people keep doing useless things

quote:

---

Well I know that many National Parks are now using a registration system for people because of overcrowding and I see tons of new vehicles on the roads, so many people are still spending.

---

I think bringing national parks into the discussion counters the original point you were trying to make. National park can be a pretty budget friendly vacation. Cost of transportation to/from the park is likely the biggest expense, depending on where you're traveling to/from. A lot cheaper to spend 4-5 days camping and hiking a national park than to spend that time in Disneyworld.

Social media is exposing people to places they'd never have thought to visit. They see someone else's photos from a trip and decide they want to go there too. Hence the need for reservations to avoid overcrowding at some parks now. I'll admit that there's a handful of places I'd like to go visit that I hadn't known about until seeing FB posts from old acquaintances I probably haven't actually seen or spoken to in years.