IOW: Be penny wise and pound foolish.
I buy one Peet’s most days: the precursor (1966) to Starbuck’s (1971), and quite superior.
I can meet a friend, chat with acquaintances, work on a score or script, and enjoy the various Pandora music channels.
Since I have never spent one cent on, for instance, illegal drugs (or other illicit if not illegal vices), I think I will continue to indulge this one minor luxury.
People are missing the whole point of the article. It’s not you or I, who can actually afford to go to $tarbuck$ or Big A$$ Coffee [actual name] places, but these millenials who are either in debt or going into debt getting a worthless degree in sociology studies for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
You and I spend OUR OWN monies we have earned and not plunk down a credit card once or twice a day for $10 of spicy brown sweet water...............