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Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞 Wed 10 Jan 2024

Mittens_meow@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Grocery shopping - everything $1 - $2 more expensive. Bring on the review of price gouging.

Over the last year, golden circle cordial has gone from $3.20 to $5. I’d switched from cottees at $5.90 a bottle, and here we are now…

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Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sure the prices have increased 25% -35% but we must not forgot averages wages are 1/3 of what they were in the 1970s.

Bastards in Australia have a way of distracting us from the hard issues and the real culprits.

Employers/news media encourages talk about rent and prices because it means we aren’t talking about wages.

Farmers like talk of global warming because it means we don’t talk about the 100 years of damage farming and farming pollution has done to the environment.

Industry likes it when we talk of household water restrictions so we don’t look at the subsidies and water waste of farming and mining

It would not surprise me if we pushed hard on the issues activists would be bumped off just like are in other countries.

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- Nath@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It isn’t only about the wages (a lot of it is wages), another huge factor is productivity. With technology and automation, the same number of people can do so much more than they could in the 70’s. Employers are getting far more output from the same number of staff than they ever used to.
  
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- melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Protests about ten years ago predicting these very issues did get the bum’s rush
  
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  - Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There have been protests for 100 years. Writing for 100 years.
    
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TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
7 bucks for 4 oat bars this morning. taking the ABSOLUTE piss.

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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I agree and I can’t wait for this.

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PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Bring it on. Minipeelers favourite cheese used to cost $6 per block (that was the reason I first tried it, it wasn’t too costly). It is now $10.90. We used to enjoy the odd treat of icecream or some sweet biscuits. They’ve gone up so much in price I can’t justify it. Anything that’s not strictly necessary is out.

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