>>Skiing in Switzerland is not as common/available now for people not in the 1% as it was 3rd quarter of last century for instance.
True that the famous Swiss and other Alpine resorts have become boutique exclusive destinations. But that's true of tourist favorites everywhere in the Free World AFAICS. Meanwhile the Swiss can pop across the border to the likes of Ballon d'Alsace that was very affordable last time I visited.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
