> In Connecticut, Mr. Dimyan, who says he feels his $3 coffee is pricey enough as it is, vented about the electronic tip prompts in a Twitter post earlier this month.
> Square replied from its official Twitter account: “Tap `No Tip.’”
Or.... Pay cash for a $3.00 item?
Do HNers still use cash? It's been years since I carried a wallet that has a slot for cash.
Yes. And not even for the ultra-privacy-minded people.
I use cash for bodegas (small corner stores in NYC) because they have card minimums I don't want to hit.
and cause I like to play cards.
2. It takes me about 10 minutes to make a cappuccino and clean up the mess. And I'm pretty experienced with a nice setup. I am paid a lot more than $6/hour. Hell, my college side gig paid a lot more than $6/hour.
3. Coffee shops are a nice place to get work down outside of work (eg side projects or self-learning). Especially relevant for those with kids at home.
So for a $3 drink, he's paying $1-$2 for an hour or more of shared work space and 10 minutes of saved labor time.
That seems like a fair deal.
And this is assuming that it's even possible for him to make the drink he wants when he wants it. If he works in an office without an espresso machine, it might just be straight up impossible for him to make the coffee he wants when he wants it.
Now, maybe Folgers from a drip machine should be good enough. But if we're going to be pragmatic robots, we should really just buy super cheap caffeine powder in bulk and mix it into our free water.... Folgers is for snobby suckers. Plus, I bet you have some hobbies/mini-luxuries I don't care about and could scoff at ;-)