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"Dropping $5 you don't have on overpriced coffee is proving that it has no power over you" Surely it depends on motivation? I wouldn't say money has power ove

"Dropping $5 you don't have on overpriced coffee is proving that it has no power over you" Surely it depends on motivation? I wouldn't say money has power over me, but I want to be a responsible member of society, pay my own way etc, so I make sure I have money to buy coffee now and in the future. Whereas if you're buying overprice coffee with money you don't have, just to impress your mates, that think you're rich and successful, and you want to impress them... Further, if you're spending $5 you don't have (assuming it isn't stolen), its borrowed, which means someone else has power over you.

codr7 8y ago
Who said anything about impressing anyone? Why do you feel the need to attack me and put words in my mouth? If I couldn't care less, how can someone have power over me?
- dyarosla 8y ago
  I believe the parent comment to your post was speaking in generalities ( see the ‘if’ )- not misquoting you at all.
  - benj111 8y ago
    Yes, that was my intent.
aristophenes 8y ago
I think there might be a cultural difference here. In the USA coffee is not a status symbol (as far as I have experienced), I've heard that it is elsewhere. In the US it's more like just a regular addiction. Coffee drinkers need to drink coffee or they feel miserable. They can make it themselves cheap, or get a nice cup at a store.