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Comment by datadrivenangel

5 hours ago

But add a $3.50 coin so that we can strongly incentivize coffee to stay below a certain price.

I know this is supposed to be a joke but... businesses have pushed for this the other way around in the past, asking for a new coin to raise prices.

> The Coca-Cola Company sought ways to increase the five cent price, even approaching the U.S. Treasury Department in 1953 to ask that they mint a 7.5 cent coin. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_price_of_Coca-Cola_from_...]

  • The wikipedia article says that this was specifically the price of a 6.5oz Coke.

    The obvious way to raise the price by 50% is to cut the amount by a third, selling 4.33oz Cokes.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/BottleDigging/comments/1kng6aq/coca... suggests that Coca-Cola was comfortable producing bottles in several different sizes.

    Now, a 4 1/3 oz Coke is obviously too small to be worth bothering with. But that's also true of a 6 1/2 oz Coke. These sizes seem more like something you dispense with an eyedropper than something you drink. A normal can is 12 oz! Who'd want to buy a six-ounce beverage?

    You can address both problems at once by doubling the price and increasing the volume all the way up to 8.67 oz.

One of the things I admire most about Italy is how they have held the line on the price of an espresso.

It’s still just slightly over €1 if you drink it standing at the bar.

They really have their priorities straight when it comes to food and drink prices.

My local just went from $3.50 to $4 this week :(

  • Gourmet high-end Keurig pods are like $0.50 each. Make your own coffee.

    • If you go through coffee regularly, it's actually quite a nice thing to invest in. There are a really amazing number of craft roasters throughout the country, and simply having a quality grinder is enough. And you don't need a crazy espresso setup to enjoy it. My setup consists of a motorized flat burr grinder, a 20$ kettle from target, and a pour over funnel. The quality is so much higher than anything you can get from a pod that's been sitting around with pre ground coffee, and it only takes a couple minutes while you're waiting for Claude to rewrite your codebase in Rust or whatever it is "Hackers" do these days

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    • If you want to save money get a Moka pot instead of that Keurig garbage.

      Even cheaper, tastes better, and takes only slightly longer to make.

    • You can solve this problem even better by drinking instant coffee. Bonus points for it making yuppies cringe.