Part 6: ‘The Great Coffee Economy Con’ – An Anarchist’s Cookbook
Channel: ramblinactivist
Date: 2022-08-04

Ramblinactivist’s video 2022/24, Lammas 2022

Coffee, the addictive obsession of the affluent class, can tell us more about modern society than just retail trends; it is an indicator for how the modern neoliberal system operates, and its current shift toward new economic extremes.

As an ‘indulgence’ (which today has the opposite sense to its original meaning), coffee is a great indicator of food culture. If we pick the economics of that apart we can see how the debate about coffee, and who benefits from it, doesn’t reflect its exploitative economics; and so perpetuates those trends.

This video takes a deep dive into the economics and social politics of coffee in Britain, and contrasts that with the recent surge with the use of food banks across Britain – to show that expensive coffee shops internalise the values of neoliberalism, and have been part of the process of normalising these ideas across society.

For the extensively referenced text of this post goto:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/aac/posts/06/index.shtml

You can find more information about ‘An Anarchist’s Cookbook’ here:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/aac/index.shtml

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Chapters:
00:00 Opening Credits.
00:35 Introduction – ‘Profitable Addictions’.
01:53 ‘Food banks versus coffee shops’.
04:20 Like & subscribe!
04:52 “Follow the money”.
08:22 The economics of ‘Own Made’ coffee.
11:05 “Just give me the coffee!”.
13:44 Closing credits.

#coffee #coffeeshop #foodbanks #economics #neoliberalism #neofeudalism