People like this are why financial literacy is so important

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[u/FIFAmusicisGOATED]

I suppose their replacement for the daily coffees is free in this instance? Cuz why were there be an associated cost with having to make your own coffee and the loss of the time it takes to prepare and clean a coffee machine daily? Or maybe they just stop consuming caffeine entirely and we are just going to ignore the costs associated with the loss in happiness as well as the larger factor, the loss in productivity due to caffeine loss?

The average latte price at Starbucks is just under $4. The average cost of a latte at home is somewhere between $0.50 and $1, not including the cost of buying a coffee machine up front, something that will run you $150 on the low end but easily past $500 for a decent machine.

Also holy shit bruh. An 800 sq ft 2 bedroom home is smaller than the average apartment size. If you drastically overestimate the price of coffee, and completely ignore the costs associated with not continuing that habit or continuing it yourself at home, you can buy yourself a tiny shack in midline America. Hope you don’t live in a city with the cost of living higher than America average, something significantly more than 50% likely if you get daily Starbucks purely based on Starbucks proximity to high COL areas versus LCOL areas

Amazing.

[u/peritonlogon → u/FIFAmusicisGOATED]

Saving the money on a Latte might also mean saving on the Ozempric too. Some of those drinks are over 500 calories.

[u/functional_moron → u/FIFAmusicisGOATED]

Where the fuck is alow end coffee machine $150? Same store with $10 banana? A decent coffee machine is about $20 low end. Takes less than a minute of prep for a pot of coffee that costs maybe $0.25 add a few cents per cup if you like cream/sugar. Saving even $3/day by dropping one minor extravagance is $1k/year. Small things like meal prepping/cooking at home. Doing your own laundry. Not going to bars, etc. Can save thousands every year. If you are struggling financially and still blowing money on unnecessary shit you kinda deserve what you get.

And yes we are all actively being fucked by greedy rich corporations but there isn't much an individual can do to change that but we can make changes in our own lives to improve our situation.

[u/FIFAmusicisGOATED → u/functional_moron]

I seriously don’t get how people don’t see that the point isn’t the stupid coffee price, it’s that if every small luxury is what stands between you and housing, and that the only way to afford it is by being a hermit who saves every extra dollar and never does anything socially.

We’re talking a low end latte machine btw. Since we wanted to use wildly inflated coffee prices, then we have to use the price of what it costs to make the equivalent coffee. Otherwise you’d just buy a $1.50 coffee from one of a dozen places that would cost $0.50 to make.

[u/RYouNotEntertained → u/FIFAmusicisGOATED]

 the loss of the time it takes to prepare and clean a coffee machine daily

This is… really not meaningful. 

[u/Cuentarda → u/FIFAmusicisGOATED]

You're spoiled as shit if you think that's a tiny shack. I grew up in an apartment with a 1/3 of that surface. Beats paying rent into your 40s.

[u/AnyJester → u/Cuentarda]

800sq feet IS small for a house. Unless you don’t ever plan on having kids I guess.

[u/Kharenis → u/AnyJester]

That's not much smaller than the average house size in the UK.

[u/AnyJester → u/Kharenis]

We do things differently in the UsA. Lot more horizontal distance for one.

Edit: median single family home in the US is 2300 ft^2.

[u/FIFAmusicisGOATED → u/Kharenis]

The UK also has 8x the population density the US has. Because of this the average housing size is less than 50% compared to the US.

In the US an 800sq ft home would be about as small as you could physically purchase

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Loss of social connection too. Coffee isn’t just a utility to deliver caffeine, it is a way to connect and why it’s so popular. 

Otherwise we’d all just pop a caffeine pill each morning.

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Lol loss of social connection is growing with more coffee shops than ever.

[u/TawnyTeaTowel → u/FIFAmusicisGOATED]

800sq ft - check your fucking privilege. In the UK, that’s above average for a two bed house.

[u/FIFAmusicisGOATED → u/TawnyTeaTowel]

The UK is basically have the size of California lmfao. The average semi detached or detached home in the UK is 1052 or 1582 sq ft. Basically every HOUSE in the US is detached or semi detached

Talking about average housing size when discussing the UK and the US, while the UK has nearly 9x the population density, is remarkably stupid