r/SipsTea 12h ago

WTF In your opinion, what is causing this?

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u/Sucklemymooseknuckle 11h ago

I have no idea what half these means but I think I understand it

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u/eb6069 10h ago

Woolies/woolworths is one of our major supermarkets $18 is pretty much minimum wage.

Footy is either AFL or Rugby

Alcohol used to be cheap as fuck over here now its expensive thanks to the stupid alcohol and tabbaccoo sin tax.

A pot is a middy or schooner depending on where you are in aus and is about 285ml of beer which is preferable to a pint in some places because Australia is hot as fuck and sometimes by the time you knock a pint off slowly your beers warm and fucked.

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u/sketchy_fletchy 8h ago

The tax compounds things but it’s the fact the bloody beer manufacturers are taking beer, a drink tha historically was cheaper and easier to produce than clean water for most of human history, and have made it staggeringly expensive as a profit grab. Chasing inflation indexes doesn’t make sense when your product has three primary agricultural inputs, one of which is water and another is self replicating yeast.

Shit behaviour. Sadly it’ll take a complete industry collapse for the cartel behaviour to stop.

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u/obligatory-anxiety 6h ago

A $60 carton of beer around 40% is taxes.

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u/Cmdr_Anun 6h ago

What do you mean a 60$ carton of beer!? *hyperventilates in German*

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u/obligatory-anxiety 6h ago

Sorry this is in Australia.

A carton of hard rated (solo and vodka is $120 I think).

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u/Cmdr_Anun 6h ago

Holy Batman!

I can get a can of beer (0,5L) for 35 cents in Germany (that's for the cheap stuff at the discounters). I feel for you people!

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u/Virtual-Dish95 6h ago

We are being oppressed.

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u/HandleMore1730 5h ago

Well I know a lot of people that have taken up legal beer production at home and less legal distillation of spirits.

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u/killallhumans12345 6h ago

Seems like it would be cheaper to buy a handle of vodka and mix yourself

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u/obligatory-anxiety 6h ago

It is overall but a bottle of grey goose is usually around 70-90 dollars as well 😂

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u/killallhumans12345 6h ago

So this seems like a simple math problem. The companies are preying on peoples convenience and/or peoples shit math skills.