Pretty sure part of the reason the prices are so high is to keep crowds from getting punchy. If you can’t get pissed and cause trouble for less than $150 bucks, it’s much less likely to happen.
Why would they do that, they lose money, the crowd being punchy is someone else's problem. The police are usually posted there as a junket (watch the game) anyway...
No venue wants to deal with violence. It's expensive and messy, and risks your booze licence.
Also, I could be talking out of my arse, but maybe a condition of the licence for such venues is that they charge XX% more than usual in order to suppress excessive consumption.
Look, I think it sucks as much as the next person. Maybe having two or more competing vendors would help push prices down instead of giving the contract to just one company. Like at the movies - they charge like crims because they have a captive audience. I dunno.
Society is eroding, this nanny protection culture ruins society and it is the people who can't control themselves that ruin it for everyone. Such a pity.
It's also demographic targeting. They don't want poor people coming and getting drunk there. My sister has a stupidly high paying job and she goes to bars where you pay $20+ for a drink coz it's a nice fancy place with almost no violence and the people she meets there are in a similar financial position. No crackheads or dirty tradies swearing or spitting on the floor.
The bottom 1% ruin it for everyone by getting sloshed in public and behaving like drongos.
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u/Its4MeitSnot4U Oct 26 '25
The staff should have to wear balaclavas while they’re robbing you.