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But add a $3.50 coin so that we can strongly incentivize coffee to stay below a certain price.
by datadrivenangel 1y ago
But add a $3.50 coin so that we can strongly incentivize coffee to stay below a certain price.
- rustystump 1y agoAlso for the memes…
- datadrivenangel 1y agoIt would be exceedingly funny is 75% of the value. Maybe make it be a $3.33 coin?
- binarymax 1y ago$0.67 coin is on the way
- nostrademons 1y ago$0.666. Half the population would think it's the mark of the beast, the other half rounds up to 6-7.
- redfern314 1y agoand the third half of the population thinks it's egregious that a repeating fraction has been truncated!
- balamatom 1y agoIt's worth about $2.70
- quijoteuniv 1y agoJust take a zero out of everything and change the name from dollar to something else!
- darth_avocado 1y ago*dllar*
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- edm0nd 1y agodolla
- forinti 1y agoUS Peso
- Galacta7 1y agoNight City eurodollars?
- cpeterso 1y agoDecadollars 100 dollars = 10 decadollars
- wffurr 1y agoUSA Fun Ticket
- RobotToaster 1y agoThere used to be a $10 coin called an eagle, may as well be violently American and call it eagles.
- dennis_jeeves2 1y agoOld trick. The last I checked about 10+ countries have done it.
- binarymax 1y agoMy local just went from $3.50 to $4 this week :(
- sugarpimpdorsey 1y agoGourmet high-end Keurig pods are like $0.50 each. Make your own coffee.
- drivebyhooting 1y agoI wonder if the gourmet high end plastic ends up in the brew.
- wffurr 1y agoIt pairs wonderfully with all the plastic in your water.
- sugarpimpdorsey 1y agoAs opposed to the plastic pipes your water runs through, the plastic water filter, plastic coffee maker, and plastic travel mug you pour it into?
- drivebyhooting 1y agoI usually don’t run high pressure boiling water through my plastic pipes.
- 0_____0 1y agoIf you go through coffee regularly, it's actually quite a nice thing to invest in. There are a really amazing number of craft roasters throughout the country, and simply having a quality grinder is enough. And you don't need a crazy espresso setup to enjoy it. My setup consists of a motorized flat burr grinder, a 20$ kettle from target, and a pour over funnel. The quality is so much higher than anything you can get from a pod that's been sitting around with pre ground coffee, and it only takes a couple minutes while you're waiting for Claude to rewrite your codebase in Rust or whatever it is "Hackers" do these days
- jimbokun 1y agoOne of the things I admire most about Italy is how they have held the line on the price of an espresso. It’s still just slightly over €1 if you drink it standing at the bar. They really have their priorities straight when it comes to food and drink prices.
- sgerenser 1y agoSo they charge more for an espresso if you want to drink it seated? Or take it away?
- jimbokun 1y agoIt costs more to drink it seated. I don’t think I ever took away a coffee during any of my vacations in Italy, and very rarely so anyone else doing so, either. Either drinking it standing at the bar or seated at a table.
- jabbany 1y agoI know this is supposed to be a joke but... businesses have pushed for this the other way around in the past, asking for a new coin to raise prices. > The Coca-Cola Company sought ways to increase the five cent price, even approaching the U.S. Treasury Department in 1953 to ask that they mint a 7.5 cent coin. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_price_of_Coca-Cola_from_1886_to_1959 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_price_of_Coca-Cola_from_...]
- thaumasiotes 1y agoThe wikipedia article says that this was specifically the price of a 6.5oz Coke. The obvious way to raise the price by 50% is to cut the amount by a third, selling 4.33oz Cokes. https://www.reddit.com/r/BottleDigging/comments/1kng6aq/cocacola_bottle_sizes_1950s1960s/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BottleDigging/comments/1kng6aq/coca... suggests that Coca-Cola was comfortable producing bottles in several different sizes. Now, a 4 1/3 oz Coke is obviously too small to be worth bothering with. But that's also true of a 6 1/2 oz Coke. These sizes seem more like something you dispense with an eyedropper than something you drink. A normal can is 12 oz! Who'd want to buy a six-ounce beverage? You can address both problems at once by doubling the price and increasing the volume all the way up to 8.67 oz.
- mrguyorama 1y agoWhen I was a kid, most sodas had a short can size of 8oz available, good for "lunches" and similar. Funny story, Coca Cola just announced thin 7.5oz cans last month, to be available in January. Shrinkflation is often done by phasing out an old size, often by jacking up the price first to aid the sales of the "family size" version on its way out, and then introducing a "New" size that's just a bit smaller.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoWhen I was a kid, there already weren't 8oz cans. But even if there had been, an 8oz can is 23% bigger than a 6.5oz bottle. 6.5oz is ludicrously small. How did that become a commercial size in the first place? As far as I can tell, a juice box today is 6.75oz, but you buy them in bulk and they're not actually large enough to be good for a small child's lunch.