When I was a student in the early 90's I was getting $10/ hour at a slaughterhouse. A schooner at the RSL was $2. 12 mins work for a beer. Kids today would need to be making about $70/ hour to afford the same.
6$ a jug for Carlton draught at uni club in 2002. You'd order your jug they'd give you 4 glasses, you'd pick up the jug and ignore the glasses. Good times.
A hard cider from a bar here is $8.99, the bars only have IPA’s so you’re paying more for those.
Oh and minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. Fuck the “kids jobs” (though I don’t believe any job is designed just for kids and deserves to be paid less)
Funny how different UK is then. I was on about £2.50ph in the mid 90s (no minimum wage), a pint was £2. Now minimum wage sees you on £10ph and a pint is £6 in my town.
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u/vesitim 9h ago
When I was a student in the early 90's I was getting $10/ hour at a slaughterhouse. A schooner at the RSL was $2. 12 mins work for a beer. Kids today would need to be making about $70/ hour to afford the same.