It's like people don't understand that coffee is a drug, and a powerful one. It has a long burn and a slow come down, so it has become an acceptable social drug

It's like people don't understand that coffee is a drug, and a powerful one. It has a long burn and a slow come down, so it has become an acceptable social drug (like alcohol and nicotine) but it's still a drug. Drugs are incredibly valuable. It's only the ease of creation for alcohol and coffee (relatively) that makes them cheap, but if they were rare we'd pay whatever it took to get them. Their intrinsic value is enormous.