Two thirds of Americans (European numbers are similar, higher if anything) drink coffee every day, which is, not to put too fine a point on it, an addiction. I'

Two thirds of Americans (European numbers are similar, higher if anything) drink coffee every day, which is, not to put too fine a point on it, an addiction. I'm one of them for sure. It's easier to just give people their fix, and there's a long history of this, paid coffee breaks were an early concession unions demanded during industrialization.