luxury

Price hikes are making gaming feel like a luxury hobby

For years, new video games looked like one of the best deals in entertainment: buy a console, buy a game, plug them into your home television, and play for hours.That bargain feels a lot less simple today. Price increases are hitting almost every layer of the hobby, pushing it increasingly…

Quiet luxury is out

Being wealthy in America has long come with the expectation to keep it a little bit secret. The nouveau riche may commit the faux pas of conspicuous consumption, but the real money — often code for old money — knows not to commit such sins. If anything, it’s their decorum…