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Originally Posted by Alan
DIY itself doesn't quite escape consumerist society either way, does it?
When you spend more on a DIY object than on a store-bought substitute, whether in time or money, it's not done for practical reasons but rather for aesthetic, or worse, ethical ones. So it's folded back into a mainly middle class niche, which is also seen with Saya's example of prices driven up.
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That's really true. You see that especially in knitting and crocheting, there's a lot of people who are "yarn snobs" who only want to knit with expensive yarn. People got really disappointed that they couldn't get a ball of wool for cheaper than 8.99 a ball at Michaels, and the hand dyed stuff is way more expensive than that. But they'd rather break the bank than pay for a wool blend or god forbid acrylic.