From our coffee addiction to a weekend pub tradition, some of the simple pleasures many Australians have taken for granted now feel like luxuries. But if patrons can no longer afford to visit the pubs and cafes we love, there may be something bigger at stake.
Wages.
We could easily afford beers and parmas if we had the same wage levels as we had 50 years ago
Australians earn **one third **the real buying power of the 1970s.
We earn ONE THIRD of what we used to
**employers took the difference in value **and stores kept increasing prices
the problem is the wages
**join a union **
It’s a problem in the global west not just Australia: the wealth gap keeps increasing even under Labor here or Labour in UK. Tax wealth not work.
Too many yank flags and bald Eagles for me to take that website seriously
https://patrioticmillionaires.uk/ has none of that. The sister group.
The founder at the top of the “who are we” list, Gary Stevenson, has a current #1 best seller in the UK, gets 1.2m YouTube views per week, and has excellent credentials and has working class roots despite education and luck propelling him to be Citibank’s global top trader - he quit after just a few years in disgust.
This is legible.
Prompt reply would be “i can’t afford to pay the higher wages without increasing priiiceeessss”
The real hydra we need to kill is real estate. When 60% of your business costs are a rent divorced from reality so some over leveraged cunt doesn’t get a drop in imaginary worth, we all pay the price.
100% this. Property prices and business rents have destroyed the good life.
My childhood suburb had nearly 30 pubs and bars when I was 18. Nowadays, half the pubs have been bulldozed and overpriced apartments take their place.
Sad thing is with the size of apartments now, we need pub spaces to share with mates more than ever.
My crew stopped going to pubs due to prices. We now play video games while drinking at home. What cheaper and zero risk of DUI!
Scratches that itch well enough IMHO
Drinking out is now a luxury and I am not willing to feed the parasites with my shit habits
Even if wages rise, we’re still leaving everyone on Jobseeker or DSP behind.
For anyone looking for pub and other specials
are your friends. $15 schnitzels, steaks etc can be found. Sometimes you can combine it with a cheaper drink during happy hour.
Beer was the last thing I expected to be bonkers expensive over here. In England you’d have to get a poncy Belgian wheat beer at 15% strength to pay equivalent to 15 bucks.
What’s a parmigiana - A weak attempt to avoid taking a side on the Parma war?
Do you mean Parmy?
I beg your Parma?
Parma sounds like a phrase uttered by the absolutely deranged. Even the children here know it’s parmy
NSW:
Exactly.
Break it down kids, its pronounced par-mi-gi-ana, and what does that sound like when you shorten it? Par-mi, Parmy.Where the fuck did the “a” come from in ‘parma’‽ Are we just going to start shortening down words and tacking the last letter on now, is that what we are doing?
Parma is just the city, if you want to Aussify it, its gotta be Parmy…
For me? lol no
Apparently The Chats have expensive taste
The price of smokes are goin up again
Not at the “gift shop”
The way he’s screaming at the end of that song is fucking beautiful
