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.
Comment on From $30 parmigianas to $15 pints, can Australia still afford the pub?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
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 **
sqgl@beehaw.org 1 week ago
notgold@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Too many yank flags and bald Eagles for me to take that website seriously
sqgl@beehaw.org 1 week ago
patrioticmillionaires.uk has none of that. The sister group. The committee at the top of the list, Gary Stevenson has a #1 best seller in the UK, gets 1.2m YouTube views per week, and has excellent credentials.
notgold@aussie.zone 1 week ago
This is legible.
butters@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Even if wages rise, we’re still leaving everyone on Jobseeker or DSP behind.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 week ago
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.
notgold@aussie.zone 1 week ago
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.