For better or for worse seeing beer (or cider) in a big plastic bottle immediately takes me back to the goblin park drinking days of my youth 
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If socialism was a beer 
If Capitalism was a beer 
Nice, this needs to be made into a meme asap.
Doug Ford's Buck a Beer campaign was unattainable wishcasting.
In China, it's a reality.
almost exactly $1 CAD
This is the PRC's retaliation for Meng Wanzhou's kidnapping. Just trolling canada now.
I've been debating it for a while but this makes it official, I'm defecting
Wisconsin province bout to bring back the red guards
Last time I was in Wisconsin (maybe 10 years ago), there were 30 racks for like $8-12 dollars.
piss beer tho 
come back to me when they got beer so dark it tastes like chocolate at 67 cents, then i will book a flight to china immediately
They do stock that stuff but usually its some belgian monastery beer that costs 50RMB a bottle.
That's still only like $6.75 for a 1.5L jug
Oh nah it's the 350ml or 500ml bottles, so not as good of a value, but I'm sure it tastes a lot better.
An I dumb or is this the sort of thing that is explained away with an exchange rate? How long would an average Chinese worker have to work to earn 4.9 RMB?
The average annual earnings in China is $16,300
If you normalise this against the US which is $47,960
This is roughly 3x
So multiply the price of that beer by 3 and I think you have a fair rough comparison. Any beer that costs 2 dollars for 1.5L? Probably not.
China's grocery basket is cheaper than the US.
And Chinese workers pay less for housing and healthcare as well. I would reckon that transportation is probably also a lot cheaper since they have access to dirt-cheap public transit and are not expected to own battleship-sized cars. Utilities seems ridiculously cheap as well.
god I wish I lived in China
You can typically get a single 24oz beer from a convenience store for like $2.50, which is like .7 liters. So like $5 for 1.5L
My back-of-the-envelope math says it somewhere around 30 minutes of minimum wage (minimum, most are making more than that). A shitty 40 of beer in the USA can be as cheap as $3, which is also around 30 minutes of minimum wage (but most people are making more than that). That's still a little less than 1.5L, but it's as close to an apples-to-apples comparison as you can get.
This does demonstrate the vast difference in PPP between US and Chinese goods. Beer is definitely part of the "basket of goods" that you can get for a much cheaper price in China.
edward aldi hands doesnt have the same ring to it
Yeah that's what my math gives too - if you factor in the alcohol content difference between this and a 40 of malt liquor it seems to shake out pretty similarly.
hourly minimum wage is 10 to 25 rmb depending on province in 2021 according to natopedia
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lol, damn could get pretty lit up for a buck.
Yeah the alcoholic part of my brain is like "move to China".
haha, reminds me of when I realized I could buy 2-buck chuck by the case at trader Joe's, so I could have an entire bottle of wine for like $2.30 or whatever it was.
I got pretty wrecked on the front porch every day for a while. felt classy too.
I think Aldi still has $3 bottles of wine which slap
Edit: I went to Aldi today and they were $4 
Is it in a plastic bottle? They sell a pretty decent pilsner, but I'm guessing this isn't it lol.
From my very limited experience, beer in a plastic bottle is not uncommon in China, especially for the very cheap ones (at least when you order online, or from a supermarket).
Idk about China but I know in SE Asia they sell little bags of hard liquor.
There are some beer in the US sold in plastic bottles but it's mostly malt liquor.
Wait does that say 3.3% abv what kind of beer is 3.3%
low alcohol beers were often brewed and consumed throughout history before modern plumbing and sanitation made clean water widely and readily available, and sugary flavored soda water became popular
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A lot of Western light beer is between 2% and 4%
Really? Is that a non-US west thing? In my mind a light beer is usually 4-5%. Most of them are 4.2%.
Depending on where you are a light beer means different things. For example the US and Canada it means low calorie, in Germany it means low alcohol (but not alcohol free).
Session ales are also typically in the 3% range.
Alcohol content and calories are linked too, so low-cal beer is also low ABV
Bud Light in the US is 4.2%, Michelob Light 4.3%, Coors Light 4.2% - in the UK Bud Light is only 3.4%, Tennants Light 3.5%, Machester Brewery Light 3.4%. You can remove alcohol to lower the calories, but in Europe Light distinctly refers to the alcohol, not the calories.
In the US you can certainly find low alcohol beers like in the 3% range, but they’re very rare, you’d have to go looking for them specifically.
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Modelo is the most popular beer in the world and it's only 4.4%
Yeah that’s more in what I expect for a basic simple beer, 4-5%. It’s very rare that I see a beer below 4% abv.
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Keep in mind, Chinese salaries are significantly lower than US ones. In these kinds of price comparisons, Chinese goods are often cheaper, but not by as drastic a margin as perceived.
it seems like wages are usually 1/3 to 1/2 of those of US workers and prices are 1/4 to 1/5 of US prices. So much cheaper, but definitely not as much as looking at the price alone.
What is the disposable income of ordinary Chinese workers?
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