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Aside from taste, I always thought the majority of coffee drinkers drink because they like the
boost of energy to make their day more productive. Coffee on the way to work is very popular
nowadays. It is very expensive though.
I think coffee is a great thing and I've never even tried it! |
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I have thought of this debate topic on my own time before, actually, I have noticed this
myself.....
So, yes. I do agree upon that basis:
Coffee shops are a meeting-place to chat, which removes the living-room, familial-feel and
connection people used to have in the old days. It is the computer-age version of the living-room,
but since it is Public? It is more Business, less Personal, less Intimate, less.......Shared, less
CONNECTED TO ANOTHER ONE HUMAN BEING; it is more of a conglomerate.
Less a valued, one human being relating to another.
I may be on the computer to come in this site, but I rarely go anywhere else online socially: I am
more of a Ludite ;-)
The snail-mail, old-fashioned type. I was raised in all my formative years by very conservative
Quaker/Amish-type parents, in the wilderness, mountains, seldom saw any people. We never had a
Television, or a computer, and never even heard of a Starbucks;-) I had a wonderfully happy
childhood in those mountains with the bears, cougars, coyotes, and TREES!
Starbucks is for the Cyber-Soul. I like Debate, that is why I am here. I like
Intellectual-Stimulation, and I enjoyed speech-class in high school.....If the Internet is used as a
tool (no porn etc),
like this wonderful place: Www.forandagainst.com
and a few other similar intellectually-worthy places, then the Internet has justified itself.
But so many people get plugged into the Borg, online bots, and lose their soul to the
Internet-collective: The Starbucks Generation, that the olden-days Moral, old-fashioned-values fall
by the wayside, and few there be that find the straight and narrow path, back to God and hearth, and
Home.....coffee in their living-room with a few, chosen, worthy Independent-Thinking, Worthy, souls
of like mind and like spirit.
The non-coffee-shop generation: Us, rebels against the Collective-Borg;-)
And Starbucks has made a heap of cash in the process ;-) |
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Coffee shops such as starbucks does in fact promote a good idea. They sell higher quality
coffeebeans that support the poor farmers in Brazil, Ethiopia, and many other developing countries.
The demand for better coffee promotes the farmers to farm better beans because they will get more
money for them. Then they can pay the laborers that harvest the bean more money. Countries such as
Ethipio have an economy highly dependent on coffee. Once the demand for higher quality coffee beans
improved in the 30's, many farmers in columbia stopped harvesting drugs and began to farm coffee.
And the farmers that did harvest coffee had enough money to pay people instead of using slaves.
Stores such as starbucks have made it easier for millions of people to live in developing countries.
We should be thankful for that. |
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It is quite evident that caffeine actually increases productivity, at least in the short term.
People usually go to these trendy cafes to use the wifi, or take a moment out of their busy day for
themselves, or to meet with someone. Or they get their coffee drink to go, which is a waste because
they are paying extra ca$h for the "experience".
So it would seem that these folks are "laying about", but looks can be deceiving.
If you don't appreciate the style of the trendy coffee houses, the coffee at Mickey D's is much
improved, and they now offer lattes if you need the additional steamed bovine mucous. |
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13 Sep 2008 15:23
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