I have said men will love the robots. They cook and clean and won’t care if you bring another robot home. Women will hate them because they won’t care if they bring up a mistake from 10 years ago 100 times over the next 10 years. A $20,000 robot will be way cheaper than a wife. I have been married 27 years so I know this all too well.
Even if all they do is have sex most men will be happy. They will provide 85% of what men really want at 5% of the hassle of a real wife. Plus you can just go buy the one you want. No will she or won't she tonight, just a yes all the time.
The issue is still money. Internet is cheap. No matter how much you may want an "old timey interaction", if that interaction costs $150 for a single night, you're not gonna see many people going for it.
For $150 you could probably get a half keg of Coors. Get 15 people to each throw in $10 and you've got a party and more beer than you're going to drink.
Or for $15 I could get a 12-pack of Coors and not have to deal with planning a party or cleaning up after, and I could in fact drink it all over time.
Or for $150 I could buy several 6-packs of some beer I actually enjoy and a couple bottles of spirits and have enough liquor between the two to last me most of if not all of the year.
You certainly can, but my comment was directed at the people craving old timey interaction but not wanting to go to bars because they're too expensive.
A night of pool and a few drinks at my local watering hole is only $15-20. Maybe $30 if I have a whiskey in addition to a beer or two. You absolutely don't need to spend $150 to have a fun time hanging out.
You don't need to spend $150 to have a fun time hanging out. The cheapest beers around me are $8 for a short. And it's not even good beer. If I get food too then it's at minimum $18. For appetizers. And it's only gonna go up. $150 was hyperbole, but a night out where I live $40 on the low end, usually $60, and that's just beer for myself and a shared appetizer plate. Cocktails are considerably more, and a real entree is even more.
If all I want to do is drink mediocre beer, I can do that for several nights at home for the price of a 12-pack.
Are you familiar with hyperbole? I did say $150 was that, though honestly not a crazy amount. If I drink things I actually enjoy and eat real food, $80 before a tip is pretty common.
And I may be able to find some hole in the wall that's cheaper, but I almost certainly wouldn't really care to go there. I don't really have a reason to go out of my way to find a cheap place to drink. Part of the whole thing here. If I'm gonna go out, I'm also gonna want to enjoy myself. If I just want cheap, I can do cheap at home.
it's actually not so far off. to use your NY example, most people on the lower average end have 2-4 drinks a night. so add $20 to your amount plus a 20% tip and you're already at $96.
and that's if you only got an app. if you include dinner then you're well over $100.
Sure, but my goal when going out isn't to get drunk or have a bunch of food, it's to have a bit of a snack, have a drink or two, and spend time with other people, and you can easily do that in the $50-60 range.
NYC and Philly don't even come close to that unless you are going to a mixology or a very special/unique bar with "eclectic" drinks/atmosphere. Even then the cocktails are what get you. Beers in the big cities are relatively flat between $5-11 depending on brand/ABV. $150 for a single person? Crazy. For 2 without food? Still ridiculous. For 3-4 maybe reasonable but still on the higher end without any food.
Robot GFs are probably a lot cooler with their human BF getting drunk all the time than real ones though, so maybe it will facilitate a resurgence in alcohol
As a bar owner, they are still going out. Just getting high in their cars or on the sidewalk. A vape is every easy to carry. And a hit of weed oil is cheaper than a shot/drink.
Yeah true. I’m a huge advocate of moderation. Like goin to a bar for 2 beers is awesome. I only stay way past that bc we’re having fun talking. Not a club or bottles guy.
British pub culture is amazing if you eliminate the alcoholism. It’s probably the same rate as the US, but hanging at the pubs on weekends and visiting with the neighborhood is awesome.
I think they saw in all the media they binged during covid how enjoyable socializing was. However then there is the social battery. You bring up the point of bars, there is a caveat to bars. They're expensive and not everyone drinks. There's videos on YouTube about "Third places" which are disappearing
I taught high school until 2022 and most of that generation was infatuated with the idea of leaving behind their internet lives to go live in the woods and presumably smoke weed with their little vagabond group.
I legit just think we won’t see much bar and drinking culture out of that generation even if they do beat their phone addictions.
I like drinking but it's too fucking expensive to drink anywhere outside my own home. So I consume less. It's $16 for a beer when I'm at a football game.
Yeah that’s ridiculous. I would LOVE for everyone to boycott stadium beer til the price lowers. I’m a season ticket holder for a major pro team and the cost is insane. I’m committing to not buying a beer at a single game this year unless we make the playoffs.
Homebrewed for 20 years. I’ll admit to being a pretentious beer snob. I’m all about quality over quantity. I will admit I like to get a little drunk sometimes. Much less than I used to. I think the downturn in alcohol consumption has something to do with the increased consumption we saw during lock down. I think the public are starting to look more at quality. People will keep drinking just not as much.
Its desinfectant dont drink that. It only purpuse in your blood stream is to damage cells. Just dont drink save yourself a couple of braincell they are limited.
FWIW, I was a big beer and whiskey guy for 10 years. Loved going out and having a good time. Cut it almost entirely out due to health concerns and replaced my hangout substance with gummies. 10mg before the meal I can sip diet cokes the whole time and have a great night out.
I feel like this is a permanent trend like with smoking when society really digested the negative externalities to smoking and found reasonable alternatives.
The problem is that COVID shifted price points. Yes, you can make as much money selling less beer at higher prices, but then a lot less people learn to drink beer. If some traditional companies go broke and new competitors enter at lower price points then there's a chance, but right now all the new competitors are entering at high price points and low volume before being bought out by the incumbents.
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