"In 1987 I had a radical idea: What if coffee cost $6 and tasted like a cigarette?

[fleur-de-lisa]

"In 1987 I had a radical idea: What if coffee cost $6 and tasted like a cigarette? I think we can all agree this innovation means I should have more money than every public school teacher combined.”

Link to tweet

Even better: Let's elect this moron as our next president!

[Moostache]

1. Billionaires should not exist, period.

The problem is not just money. It really comes down to the simple fact that a functioning economy requires liquidity of the currency and circulation of it on goods and services to produce the supply and demand in the first place. When too few people control and consolidate too much of the capital, the system is incapable of self-correction. It will basically become a zero-sum game and those with the overwhelmingly high percentage of the capital will attempt to control it all, effecting a complete breakdown of the basic market premise that supply and demand will set prices and incentivize the people to perform as rational actors. A man working 3 jobs and 90 hours a week to barely eke out rent and food for another month is NOT a rational actor, he is indentured and essentially a wage slave. Greater freedom and prosperity lie in greater equitability in distributed purchasing power. Freaking Henry Ford knew this 100+ years ago...

Bottom line is this, for a global economy to function, everyone worth greater than $500M should be taxed on the accumulated wealth above $50M that is not recirculated into the overall economy at a 90% annual marginal rate. Hoarding capital, in the hopes of purchasing political power with it, is killing the golden goose already; changing the equation is the only hope to save the system - by transforming it into regulated capitalism via injected purchasing power to the masses at the expense of the billionaire class.

No one should be a billionaire, anywhere, at anytime.

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. Bravo! Nicely put.

[2naSalit]

8. +1

[RestoreAmerica2020]

28. "'Fundamentally Inhuman' Economy: 26 Billionaires Own as Much as World's 3.8 Billion Poorest People

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/21/fundamentally-inhuman-economy-26-billionaires-own-much-worlds-38-billion-poorest%3Famp&ved=2ahUKEwjDoPDm85jgAhUjIDQIHTe1A84QFjACegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw389zr8ikw6iRqRDwz9u1SV&ampcf=1

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. I can't go to Starbucks, I don't speak the language.

They understand me at McDonalds, at Dunkin Donuts, Tim Hortons. But Starbucks? I might as well speak Klingon.

[Sneederbunk]

3. I want the guy who decided to sell water in a plastic bottle.

[bullwinkle428]

4. ...

How about the guy that failed at putting water in a plastic bottle?

[fleur-de-lisa]

6. How did he manage to fuck that up?

Oh, wait, he bankrupted a casino, which is virtually impossible!

[uponit7771]

25. +1

[CatMor]

7. Why does he put his ugly face on everything ...

I'm a peace loving person but he makes me want to punch his ugly grinning face every time I see it.

[virgogal]

10. He hardly puts his face on everything----

I didn't even recognize him.

Where does he put his face?

[CatMor]

11. Im talking about trumps face on the trump water bottle in the above post.

[Boomerproud]

22. Uncontrolled EGO.

But we already knew that didn't we.

[IronLionZion]

17. In 1973, DuPont engineer Nathaniel Wyeth patented Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles

And selling water in containers has existed in various forms over hundreds of years but Perrier is credited with making it popular as we know it when they started selling sparkling mineral water in plastic bottles in the 70s.

[dsc]

9. It is hard to believe that the coffee doesn't taste good

I don't drink coffee so I have no knowledge one way or the other but if it tasted bad it wouldn't sell.

[crazycatlady]

13. basic coffee isn't what they're best known for

They're known for fancier drinks like lattes, frappuchinos, iced drinks, etc.

I always thought Starbucks coffee was very strong. Then someone told me they sell more iced coffee than hot coffee so I guess they brew it knowing most will be watered down by ice.

I do love me a PSL though.

[IronLionZion]

23. They make nitro cold brew better than their local competitors

but their regular coffee is pretty terrible. People get their flavored drinks like pumpkin spice lattes loaded with sugar, salt, fat, and calories

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Starbucks coffee has always tasted sort of burned to me.

Maybe that's why they try to sell a lot of fancy, overpriced coffee drinks with a lot of sugar, cream and other flavorings.

[oberliner]

12. Starbucks coffee is $2

[fleur-de-lisa]

15. I assume the tweet was referring to a

1,200 calorie venti mocha chocolatte frapalicious raspberry caramel liquid sugar rush.

With skim milk.

[oberliner]

16. Right - but that's not coffee

The coffee at Starbucks is reasonably priced.

[fleur-de-lisa]

19. I bet it has a couple of drops of coffee in it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. I like Starbucks coffee, but I like dark roast

If you don't like their regular blend (Pike) you can ask for light roast. It's always available.

[oberliner]

20. Their coffee is fine and reasonably priced

And Schultz has done some positive things in his life, but I hope he doesn't run for POTUS.

[TexasBushwhacker]

24. I agree. Not a fan of billionaires leap frogging to POTUS

I had a roommate who had to cobble together part time jobs while she was finishing up her college degree. One of the jobs was at Starbucks. Between what she was paid hourly and the tip jar that everyone split, she was making about $14 an hour. That's considerably better than most part time jobs.

Unlike most employers, they offered health insurance to their part time workers. Emloyees had to pay for part of the premiums, but most employers don't offer health insurance to part timers at all.

[ProudLib72]

18. You guys are a bunch of rubes, so vote for me!

Might go over with some, but I certainly hope this ploy fails him miserably.

[IronLionZion]

21. What does it say about the people worldwide who buy their drinks?

There are people with daily Starbucks habits and choose where to live based on proximity to a Starbucks.

I had no idea where my nearest Starbucks was until I was given a gift card this Christmas. And there was a line of people waiting to buy stuff. Millennials even use the app to skip the line.

Dude got rich off these people.

[Hamlette]

27. it's not his billions, its his politics

maybe he's one of those guys who gets conservative as he gets richer. He did do some good things but now he admires Reagan because he wore a suit coat in the oval? WTF?

I think we should steal this "quote" and float it as if it were real. No, that's what Donald would do. See how hard it is?