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How coffee fuels capitalism
Today, for most of us, “to be caffeinated to one degree or another has simply become baseline human consciousness”, says Michael Pollan. Something like 90% of us drink the stuff regularly, making it “the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world”. We wean our children onto it at an early age. Few of us even think of it as an addictive drug, though anyone who tries to come off it will soon learn otherwise. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that it “remade the world”.
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