In the grand scheme of things, K-cups are among the least of our worries.
But it does show how Americans have become the suckers of marketing. It is no accident that the massive debt financing of consumer purchases have resulted in a massive shift of wealth from the masses to the top 1%. Real income has not budged since 1975.
I remember my then-employer bringing in K-cups after complaints that the office coffee was not exotic enough.
This caused our receptionist, mother of three, to go into a tizzy. “This company is going broke. I did not get a raise last year, and yet they just took the cost per cup of our coffee from thirteen cents to forty-three cents. What the &$^% ?”