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It's like when they jacked up the prices of chocolate bars a while back to keep up with the cost of production. When people responded negatively, they instead just made them smaller and maintained the original pricing.
It's a balance of price and quantity. Either way, you are getting what you pay for usually. The restaurant/tavern/pub business is tough; it's not like they're all laughing all the way to the bank. (Though maybe some are.) I wouldn't feel cheated, as I'm sure if it were actually a full pint instead, it would cost more.
Maybe this is just more about the "art of the pour." I dunno. I'm no connoisseur. (Though I'd like to be.)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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