Something this article really brought home for me was just how f*^king privileged I am. Not because I can trivially afford a $5 coffee each day. But because of

Something this article really brought home for me was just how f*^king privileged I am. Not because I can trivially afford a $5 coffee each day. But because of all the linked terms in that article like "Stanford Marshmallow Experiment", "Fixed Costs", "Finite Willpower", "Delayed Gratification" and so forth that I implicitly understand and gloss over. The fact that I can _read this very article_ is why I can trivially afford a $5 coffee. Maybe if we focussed on education instead of $5 coffees, we could get to the point where we could justifiably ignore the coffees.