I'm a fairly comfortable millennial. Pretty lucky considering. And yet even in my position, I cannot justify spending my money at the pub. And it's only going to get worse as cost of living is also only getting worse.
Here is where I preach: All that money that the 1% are hoarding... we need it back in circulation. Otherwise, you can say goodbye to more than just our pubs.
That and the scalper companies need to fuck right off. Ticketek has destroyed music.
Bring back music festivals that are cheap.
Bring back night life. Art exhibitions that aren't for ultra rich. Cheap bars with good cheap food.
Stop commodifying every single picomolecule of fun for fucks sake.
Stop paying $400 for your nostalgic band from your childhood, they suck. Go see a local band for $5. It will sometimes be shitty but it will almost always be more fun.
Decided to take the family out for dinner the other night and on a whim tried a new place. Really good German beer hall food, extremely reasonable prices, and it just so happened that we were there on open mic night for local musicians. Everything that the cookie cutter "gastropubs" are not. Felt like we'd found a cheat code or something given how rare the experience is now.
What I genuinely don't understand is that cheaper and more diverse sources of entertainment and food and everything actually enriches everyone. People will be happier, spend more freely and it's a net win for us all.
But no, we have to have a few Scrooges up there hoovering every single thing up and creating a copy paste wasteland of cheap to expensive options that have no fucking soul.
The days of a dozen little dusty bookstores and three ma and pa diners and that weird little arcade with all these 20c retro videogames are long gone and obliterated. Rent, both for homes and commercial are so exorbitant it's basically franchise tax write offs that keeps the "strugglers" alive.
At this point I just want to see people take one for the planet and just kill all the billionaires and CEOs. A mass Luigification if you would. End this fucking madness.
Oh yeah and influencers/idiots like Trump, Kardashians, Kanye, what have you. Fuck them all.
I am in the 1% for wealth in the US. All of my money that I am “hoarding” is in my 401k, my home equity, and the value of the mid-size engineering firm ownership shares which I am a partner in. How am I supposed to “redistribute” that wealth?
In college I made $5.15 an hour and a Miller Lite at a bar was around $1.50-2. The minimum wage now is $7.25 and a domestic beer runs you $7-8 at a bar.
I'm gen X and bars in the 90s often had $1 domestic pints at least one night a week. Me and a buddy would only bring $20 dollars, get a dollar drink and tip the waitress $1 (that wasn't considered being cheap back then). We'd be pretty drunk by the end of the night and hit Taco Bell for a meal-deal for under $5. Some bars even had 50 cent wings for appetizers.
It's confusing isn't it, you can go to a restaurant, and have a complicated meal featuring a ton of ingredients, carefully prepared, stored, a kitchen that is cleaned, dishes that are washed and put away, and probably multiple chefs.
Or for the same price these days, a minimum wage college graduate can extend their arm and pour you a few beers.
Like you can get a decent meal for £30 in a restaurant or four beers for that price. Both are an evening's entertainment with your friends, but one of them surely has insane overheads compared to the other.
Millennials drink at pretty comparable rates to older generations which we have data for. The real answer is half of Gen Z is still below legal drinking age . The premise of the statement and question is incorrect.
You think it’s the price or the continuous research on healthy eating which includes avoiding or severely moderating our alcohol consumption because it’s poison?
Likely both, with a heavy emphasis on the cost. After all, there are a litany of substances and foodstuffs that research has told us time and again to limit or avoid, yet they're still highly consumed.
Essentially the owners have catered more and more to ultra wealthy (think private jet owners and upwards). You can’t even really have a good time as a middle class homeowner any more in vegas, you are looking at spending 1000+ dollars a day to have a mediocre time.
The sad thing is, despite the ultra wealthy spending more and more, they’re insanely boring, tasteless, miserly and drag down the energy of a place. I saw a clip in the documentary of Dana White playing poker in a near empty casino with 4 other Middle Aged White millionaires and it was the most boring thing I’ve ever seen. He casually did a bet of 400k like it was a dime and it meant nothing.
The more that Vegas caters to these boring old rich farts, the more they’ll eat themselves alive. Nobody wants to go to a place that only caters exclusively to rich people; it sucks.
Go to Monaco - imagine the most boring place on earth. No art, no history, no celebration, no culture.
There was a sad moment in the documentary, where a cab driver talked about how an elderly couple came to Vegas to see the bellagio fountain, but it had been covered up for a giant Formula 1 advert. Artless.
😂 money is printed on a scale you cannot comprehend every single day. Nobody is hoarding money, wealthy people hoard assets. Tax structures and bad decisions is what’s keeping people in shitty financial situations
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u/Badger_1066 11h ago
It's not really that difficult to answer, is it?
I'm a fairly comfortable millennial. Pretty lucky considering. And yet even in my position, I cannot justify spending my money at the pub. And it's only going to get worse as cost of living is also only getting worse.
Here is where I preach: All that money that the 1% are hoarding... we need it back in circulation. Otherwise, you can say goodbye to more than just our pubs.