I 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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malicka 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Putting Keynesian economics next to nationalism on the evil list was so funny, I almost spit out my coffee.

	▲	sph a day ago \| parent [-]
		Is it? Keynesian economics created the economic framework to finance World Wars.

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nervousvarun 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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anonym29 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

At least the coffee demons aren't quite as bad as the amphetamine demons that produced Nazi Germany.

	▲	barrenko 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		We could view as amphetamine vs. coffee / black tea.
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