I can sniff you from afar

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Cake day: November 9th, 2022

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  • Not necessarily

    I mean, the constant capital for coffee has been made, and as I think you should know, here, it’s a battle for surplus value, over who gets more, the capitalist or the barista wage laborer, and I don’t think there’s much more innovation you can do with coffee making much to reduce constant capital value via reduction of its reproduction in labor time (yet; it takes a lot of labor time and money to innovate and supersede labor, in comparison to just maintaining the cafe capitalist system as is)

    (I’m assuming you’ve read Value, Profit and Price)

    That being said, while separate, both the struggles of the coffee farmer and barista can be interrelated and fought hand in hand, with solidarity from global north to south…