Submitted 2 days ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to australia@aussie.zone
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.
For anyone looking for pub specials
are your friends
What’s a parmigiana - A weak attempt to avoid taking a side on the Parma war?
Apparently The Chats have expensive taste
The price of smokes are goin up again
The way he’s screaming at the end of that song is fucking beautiful
Not at the “gift shop”
For me? lol no
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.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days 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 **
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 days 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 2 days 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.
butters@aussie.zone 17 hours ago
Even if wages rise, we’re still leaving everyone on Jobseeker or DSP behind.
sqgl@beehaw.org 2 days ago
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.
notgold@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Too many yank flags and bald Eagles for me to take that website seriously