Having fun does not need to make financial sense.
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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 week agoThere’s never been a point in my life where going out drinking all night has made financial sense. A meal and a beer at a pub, sure, but bars are expensive. And loud. And cramped.
The kids are on to something.
tja@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And yet finances are what enable some kinds of fun. $10 dollar indie game you play for a month or one night out for $200. Guess which men are picking.
aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Hell, $29 and the factory continues to grow for years of entertainment. That’s not even a full meal with drink and tip at most bars.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
$200 for 1 night out is crazy. Can’t you just pregame a bit (courtesy of public transit), then go to some bars and get some cheap drinks for $5 or less each?
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
It does if you’re poor.
jaycifer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You just have to live in the right city with sufficiently high rates of alcoholism! In Fargo, ND you could get a tall 200 lb+ man proper sloshed over an evening downtown across 5-8 bars for $50 or less as recently as 2019. Not as cheap as drinking at home, but enough that most folks without kids working full-time could do it every other weekend.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 1 week ago
See, but that’s the rub! Who the fuck wants to spend $50 and go to that many bars? I could get a new AAA game for that much that I’ll play for hundreds of hours.
jaycifer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
$50 fro 6pm-2am is cheaper per hour than a movie ticket or dinner at a restaurant, and hitting that many bars is easy when they’re all on the same 2-3 block stretch!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Well there’s your problem, North Dakota doesn’t exist.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Id you heard the horror stories I heard from friends that went there to work the oil fields, this would be a very very good thing.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
$50 or less in 2019? I live in a more urban area of the US than this and if you pregame and go with friends, you can get the equivalent of 5 drinks at 3 bars for well under $20. In 2025.