Comment on Think $5.50 is too much for a flat white? Actually it’s too cheap, and our world-famous cafes are paying the price

guillem@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MHLoppy@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If comparison against average monthly wage is your benchmark, it's still proportionately cheaper in Australia with average monthly wage being $6,201.43 (i.e., >50% of $11,000, whereas the coffee price is <50% of $10.16).

  Average wages here are also higher than the majority of the countries above us on the average-coffee-price chart.

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  • guillem@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be honest it isn’t my benchmark, I was just adding that to the context in the same way I could have added any other differential circumstance: my point is that it’s more complicated than what the article says.

    And that it’s probably less about “someone think about the baristas” and more about the benefits, but that’s another story.

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• sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t trust the article.

  I recall having coffee and croissant in A Salzburg historic courtyard cafe for half the price of one in a shitty Aussie suburban location.

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  • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t trust average price data because of a personal anecdote? Very strange take.

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    • sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is my own direct evidence, not someone else’s anecdote.

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      • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Your “direct evidence” is literally an anecdote lol

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