• socsa@piefed.social
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    16 hours ago

    This is a very serious problem. The next generation is going to grow up and be super lame. The coolness gap is a serious threat to our nation al security.

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      15 hours ago

      By that metric, I had to stop drinking because I was way too fucking cool all the time 😄

      Coming up on 9 years in roughly a month and a half 🥳

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        14 hours ago

        It’s ok brother just like we all get vaccines in part to protect those who can’t, so too will we aspire to backfill the alcoholic coolness in solidarity with those who are unable to contribute themselves. For England.

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            10 hours ago

            I’m not sober, but I have tried some NA beers, and they’re surprisingly good. I have also tried some of the old ones that were pretty nasty. I don’t really know why the old ones were bad, or how we now have good ones, but it’s nice to see.

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      14 hours ago

      yeah but more people are using weeds and other shi now so I think it balances out

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      18 hours ago

      Other way around. Modern capitalism dictates that as sales drop, prices must rise so profits can remain the same or continue increasing.

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        16 hours ago

        Yeah about that… nothing modern about it. That’s what it was supposed to be by the old observations when people had actual scarcity of … wheat and corn or whatever.

        It doesn’t work for alcohol today. There are still people doing moonshine brew because it can’t get cheap enough. The demand will never reach a bottom nor a peak.

        It’s layers of markets. If you can’t sell your shit brew at “market price” you can always dump the price and reach a new market of bottom feeders or go the other way and pay influencer to make a silly drinking game to make artificial scarcity in the upper market.

        There’s always enough supply and demand that everything is possible.

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      18 hours ago

      With fewer people smoking, the price of cigs sure didn’t drop.

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          Most of the cost is production and taxes. If demand falls, production resources (land etc) are diverted to more profitable crops. This makes supply fall until prices reach a new equilibrium.

          Taxes then add a fixed offset to that.

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      2 hours ago

      Then why not something special like heroin or meth? Go out with a bang and all. Or reject reality and do LSD, DMT or shrooms? Alcohol is so basic, smh…

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    14 hours ago

    Technically, everyone is doing their part in the matter of a number being record low.

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    13 hours ago

    So the price of whisky is gonna be reasonable again, right?..right?..

  • honesthenery@thelemmy.club
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    14 hours ago

    I smoke weed i don’t regret my actions… I drink and if I am lucky I don’t wind up in jail. The same with the cocain. Devils lurk in this body and the weed keeps them in permajail