alt Hacker NewsI like this worldview. Prior to coffee, Europe was in the grip of the beer dwarves. Coffee demons took over and invented nationalism, capitalism and Keynesian economics.
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nervousvarun • today at 11:19 AM
Obligatory recommendation for: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World by Mark Pendergrast
Fantastic book. I first encountered it...in a coffee shop :) Read a chapter and immediately bought the book for myself.
anonym29 • today at 11:04 AM
At least the coffee demons aren't quite as bad as the amphetamine demons that produced Nazi Germany.
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Putting Keynesian economics next to nationalism on the evil list was so funny, I almost spit out my coffee.