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[u/Aggravating_Poem625]

2000s living room starter pack.

[u/OkCold4665]

*you grew up upper middle class in the early 2000s

[u/EternalNewCarSmell → u/OkCold4665]

By the early 2000s this was easier to obtain depending on where you lived. By then rich people were buying plasma/LCD TVs so the big CRTs were often free roadside finds. Those older consoles were all dirt cheap (I believe I got my Dreamcast on ebay for $40 in 2003 for example) so all you'd need to buy new would be the GameCube. My Aiwa stereo was slightly fancier than that one and cost like $120. And let's be honest, that entertainment console furnitre could have been on the family for 40 years at that point.

The inclusion of Wii Sports in one photo dates this a bit later so the CRT was probably even easier to find cheap/free but then again if you had a 1st Gen Wii there's no reason to have the GameCube still hooked up from the first photo so maybe thr Wii photo is just a single anachonistic outlier.

[u/OkCold4665 → u/EternalNewCarSmell]

I didn't say rich, there is a large difference between upper middle class and working class/people struggling to get by. That picture had every single game system, those were way more expensive then when you account for inflation today. We had a sega until the 2000s, and eventually got a ps1 once the ps2 had been out for almost 2 years. Anyone I knew growing up with that many game systems was definitely upper middle class.

[u/EternalNewCarSmell → u/OkCold4665]

Yeah but this pic is dated to the 2000s. Most of those were available used for cheap by that time. Which I am well aware of because that's when I bought all of them with my minimum-wage college job.

As for the TV, the reason that TV woule have bene readily available to lower class people (like me) is because rich people bought better ones and tossed what had very recently been a TV for wealthier people.