Consumer Society

[Gandalf]

Yes, and coffee? What is that all about? These days it's something like 3 pounds for a cup of coffee at some stupid franchise. Why would anyone want to drink in a Starbucks? If you are going to drink overpriced coffee then have the class to do it in an independent shop and really support your local community. Same with food, buy in local markets. It's easier out here because markets are actually cheaper than the supermarkets too. People are such schmuks going to the same franchises like lemmings. Be your own person, stop being a sheep.

I don't buy it a lot but Starbucks has good coffee

I remember the last time I was in one of their establishments. I had a voucher for about 20 dollars of free stuff and went in there and had some coffee and cake. I felt like a really seedy man being in a place like that knowing that it is against everything I believe in. All the customers were around me talking, drinking their coffee and seemed to be having a good time, but I felt really bad inside like I was doing something unholy. I never went back again.

I feel unclean knowing that the workers are kept on low pay and have no rights and you know that the profits go straight back to the nasty stiffs who buy shares. There is something in me that cannot reconcile such a system. If they were a cooperative and you knew it was a groovy place I might be tempted to go back and buy a brownie, but until that day they are on my boycott list along with Saudi Arabia and McDonald's.