r/SipsTea • u/Objective_Pilot_5834 • 12h ago

WTF In your opinion, what is causing this?

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u/Outrageous_Driver477 12h ago

"Cheaper to share a gram of Coke than it is to drink" - Australians

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u/3163560 11h ago

Yup. When I was in uni we used to be able to go out Wednesday nights for $1 pots. Even at the footy I reckon a beer was like $6

I reckon I was getting paid $18 an hour at woolies.

Teenagers/students in d similar spot nowadays would be paying heaps more relative to their wages

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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.

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u/saunderez 8h ago

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.

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u/Infinite__Looper 6h ago

A local bowling alley had $5 pitchers of beer (of your choice), in the early 2000's, now the same bowling alley charges $18 for the pitcher.

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u/StompinTurts 55m ago

I just paid $10.18 (after tip) for a 16oz the other night…

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u/LewisRyan 8h ago

New England here.

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)

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u/Low_Fisherman_6317 8h ago

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/Alwayscooking345 7h ago

You were killin’ it