The life cycle of a cup of coffee - A.J. Jacobs
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How many people does it take to make a cup of coffee? For many of us, all it takes is a short walk and a quick pour. But this simple staple is the result of a globe-spanning process whose cost and complexity are far greater than you might imagine. AJ Jacobs traces the journey of this caffeinated elixir from seed to cup.
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I dont know the value of the coffee but people harvest those coffee in dangerous. All matter is people live. Just need to be worth this price it's enough.
People who harvest coffee should be paid more. They work in dangerous conditions and they work for a lot of time. It takes around 3 to 4 years for a tree to bear coffee beans. I would be willing to pay more to increase their wages.
Yes . I would be willing to pay more then minimum wage, so they can earn more money for doing a really hard and dangerous job .
I would be willing to pay more for coffee now that I understand all the work that goes into manufacturing coffee and coffee beans. I really enjoy coffee a lot. It would be worth it to pay the workers a fair and reasonable wage. I would be willing to pa above minimum wage.
I would willingly pay more since its a very dangerous job
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I would be willing to pay more because of how dangerous the job is
I would be willing to pay more for coffee because I feel like the workers work very hard to make it, so yes I would be willing to paid more for coffee even if it was just $2 dollars more.
I would be willing to pay more because I feel like the people who work to make the coffee work hard enough that they should get a bigger pay check. I would pay about $2 dollars more.
i would because that doing any thing with coffee is prollboly dangerous
I would pay more if the coffee was from tim hortons. If the coffee was from starbucks i would not.
I would be willing to pay for more coffee if it would raise the payments for the people that are involved in proccess. It is a very dangeours proccess they go through to make coffee for us. So after watching it I relized they should deserve more.
I will not unless its from timmys which has a great coffee
I would pay more money because I think they deserve more money for the dangerous job they are doing for low wadges
i would pay more because there really poor and they work in very dangerous places
I would pay a couple dollars more but only if it was a Tim Horton's coffee specifically a french vanilla
yes I would because a lot of people work soooo long and hard and barley get money out of it
I might be willing to pay more when i am older but not likely now because i don't drink coffee. I would probably now that i know all the work it takes when i am older.
The people that harvest coffee work very hard and make very little money to live on, and some people have family´s too feed, and cars,tax, school and a home
I would pay more for college to increase workers' wages. This is my belief because coffee is extremely important to me.
yes, I would pay more because coffee has become very important to me.
Maybe sometimes
yes because coffee is important.
I would be willing to pay for more coffee if it would raise the payments for the people that are involved in the process. It is a very dangerous process they go through to make coffee for us. So after watching it I realized they should deserve more.
I would pay at least 5 dollars more because people work really hard to make coffee but if they don't get paid it would be waste of power and time for them.
No doubt, as long as I was assured, beyond reasonable doubt, that any increase would translate directly in better pay for the harvesters.
I believe coffee should be more expensive in order to ethically finance its production. I would gladly pay more for my coffee if that meant fair pay for all workers and ethical social and environmental practices across all areas of production.
Increasing wages empowers workers to practice greater autonomy, invest in their communities and contribute more to the economy.
Often wage increases don't even result in dramatically higher costs to the consumer that being said I would be willing to pay between $1 and $3 extra per coffee which is an increase of between 25% and 75% respectively in order to ensure the sustainability of my brew.