Ibon wrote:that article is pure indulgent BS. In the specialty coffee industry there are quite a few clueless folks full of themselves...
The tragedy Ghung is not the fools who thought this up. It is the decadent fools who will order this coffee.
Given with coffee, we have Starbucks with $10 coffees common in major cities in many countries. Or that K-cups with incredible waste and cost are common for home brewing. (What happened to a tub of Folgers and spoons? When I checked this out years ago, you could save a ton and not have all that K-cup plastic waste idiocy. And all the special beans at MANY dollars a pound, shipped all over the planet, with the cost of coffee becoming some kind of a competitive sport.) It's just a BEVERAGE for crissake.
Somehow, I think we passed the "tilt" level on waste and idiocy on coffee quite a while back.
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On this one I'm innocent. I like hot black tea, mostly. I can get the 100 bag Kroger brand (probably made by Lipton, etc) on sale for $1.99 a box, and that's when I buy it. Tea keeps for ages if kept dry. I get 2 large cups per bag, so it's a penny a cup, plus the cost of microwaving the tea and a cup of tap water. Given my electric bill is typically $60ish, somehow I suspect that's not overly expensive either.
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People assume you have to make a huge salary to become financially independent. If I save $50 to $100 a week on tea vs. Starbucks, etc. coffee, that adds up fast. (Oh, and Tea is the only non-water beverage I drink, so add soda-pop, liquor, etc. so now we're talking REAL money, probably several thousand dollars a year, just on beverages).
Now, add real money pits like housing, cars, furniture, clothing, yadda, yadda, and suddenly common sense and frugality start looking FAR more important than a huge salary -- especially if that huge salary isn't used with some common sense and frugality.
I still think some sort of modern home-economics education with a focus on intelligent comparison shopping, budgeting, basic investment, etc. should be mandatory in first world high school public programs. That might well resolve more "financial hardship" in such countries than a huge pack of do-gooder left wing politicians.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.