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POLL: Have you heard of this place called “Starbucks”?
Question: POLL: Have you heard of this place called “Starbucks”?
I stumbled upon one this morning while using their restroom. They call their medium drinks “grande” and their large drinks “venti”. What the hell is up with that? Is it owned by nazis or something?
Answer:
Answer by LUCIOUS HARRIS = G.O.A.T.
AHHHHHH……IT BURNS MAH EYES!!!!
I really don’t get the point of Starbucks, why pay $ 30 for coffee, when you can make it on your own.
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Question: How Do You Feel About This?
Many campus coffee shops boast that they “proudly serve fair trade coffee,” but does the fair trade movement actually make a difference in the lives of the poor and disadvantaged? Is free trade also fair trade?
Answer:
Answer by Alexander R
lol.. this is the same as asking whether electric cars really save all that much energy considering the manufacturing resources they cost.
Whether windmills are beneficial for the same reason.
Whether organic and free range products are really any healthier or treated any better (respectively)
Whether locally grown produce requiring extra resources to grow in a foreign climate is any better than using gas to ship the produce from their native countries.
Unfortunately, we as society sucker ourselves into convenient ways of doing noble things. And companies often thrive on this need to “conveniently do a good thing” by marketing their products as more socially minded than they really are.
Often companies will implement superficial ‘Green’ policies just to boost their credibility and sales.
I’m not informed enough on fair trade coffee to give a definitive answer, but I imagine a lot of the exploited workers in colombia aren’t getting their fair share of fair trade.
And exploitation is going to keep happening for as long as the lowest price tag is the main prerogative in consumer culture. Which unfortunately, it almost always will be.
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