No one wants to gamble on a $17 (not including tax or tip) cocktail that a girl might want to talk

I would gamble on a $3, hell even a $5 cocktail if everything else was so relatively affordable. The problem is even fast food corps are speculative RE investors now, and they need you to pay $7 for a shitty combo deal to finance their gambling habits.

I think the root of it is really: existing outside of home is just too expensive.