Ratio of Minimum Wage (US) to Six Pack Price

when I was a beer drinker (the olden days) Coors (the breakfast of champions was 85 cents a 6-pack) Millar High Life Tall Blonds (long neck bottles) was $1.09, Grain Belt (when we were totally broke collecting pennies from the seat cushions) was 69 cents. Minimum wage jumped to $1.00 per hour.

Heehee - you could, apparently, until they made the bar bigger, always tell quite accurately how the average Australian's income was doing relative to inflation and such, by seeing how many Mars Bars they could buy with it!!!!!

Years, dates, I need dates, Dys.

Dlowan, should we expand the theory to world wide??

Yep, I believe so....but I hate beer, so I have no idea what the stuff costs...

Michelob light. Manhattan. $7.99

Joe, my above beer prices would have been circa 1961

Are you all wine sippers and boozers on this forum>>??? Where are beer nuts?

right here.....waiting to tally up what i spent over the years.

$8.75 for a twelve pack of bud light here, i only buy them by the dozen.

thanks pueo.

What's going on?

Joe

work, work, and more work.

i hate monday's.

Then you should take the next three Mondays off.

Tell them you are doing research for a multi-million dollar American organization on the ratio between beer and the minimum wage.
The only thing that's not true is the multi-million dollar part
and that I'm not really an organization,

but I am American.

On second thought, maybe mentioning minimum wage isn't a good idea.


Next Monday, why don't I call them for you? I could say you'll be in Tuesday IF you feel like it and IF they don't like it, well, that's just too bad.

How would that be?

sounds interesting, although i'm not too sure i'd still be employed after that.

No. no. no. If they fire you then I make all the pleading phone calls for you, the whining , the weedleing, the sobbing, I've done it all before for so many.




I think one actually got her job back.

My one vice these days is that rarity, the palatable non-alcoholic beer. The best of the bunch is from Germany and called Clausthaler. Costs me about $6.00 a 6-pack.

Thanks Scrat. More data for the huge wall chart I'm making.

I've been thinking along these lines. Not beer vs. minimum wage, but books vs. minimum wage.

When I started actively buying books with my own money, it was about 1983 or 1984. I was paying about 2.50 - 2.99 a book then. I remember when it went up to four dollars. I was pissed. When it hit 5.99 in 1989, I vowed never to buy paperback books again. Minimum wage used to be $3.35 back in '84, I think it was. In '89, it was $4.25. Since 9/97, it's been $5.15. I buy used books, and the original price is anywhere between $5.99 to $7.99. It could be higher than that.

When I buy beer, I pay about $6 for a six-pack of Killians Irish Red. I have paid as high as $7 something for it. 12 packs go for about $10 - $12, when I feel like buying that much.

Interesting to see we're thinking about the same things.

I am adding books to the chart.

The question is as the amount of beer bought goes up, does the amount of books follow or fall?


Thanks for an interesting parallel thought>


Joe

The two are seperate. I'm always reading. Not much at home, but usually at work, and most afternoons a few minutes before I fall asleep. Beer is for weekends only, and one or two at that. During football season, beer consumption goes up, but not much. But I'm always reading. It's not one or the other.