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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 **
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.
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.
My crew stopped going to pubs due to prices. We now play video games while drinking at home. What cheaper and zero risk of DUI!
Scratches that itch well enough IMHO
Drinking out is now a luxury and I am not willing to feed the parasites with my shit habits
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.
https://patrioticmillionaires.org/
Too many yank flags and bald Eagles for me to take that website seriously
https://patrioticmillionaires.uk/ has none of that. The sister group.
The founder at the top of the "who are we" list, Gary Stevenson, has a current #1 best seller in the UK, gets 1.2m YouTube views per week, and has excellent credentials and has working class roots despite education and luck propelling him to be Citibank's global top trader - he quit after just a few years in disgust.
This is legible.