Is there literally any kind of Marxist basis for this asshole's position? Baristas grind up beans and add hot water and hot milk, and thus their labor turns the coffee beans and milk into a commodity. It's textbook extraction of surplus value. Am I missing something there? Is it because the beans and milk are also commodities, or what? Can someone explain this to me?
Fucking bingo. At the risk of triggering a round of flintstones characters spamming slurs, the reason they see baristas as not creating value is that they see pumpkin spice lattes as having negative value compared to the beans and laborpower used to make them. You know, because that’s a woman’s drink /s
what about coffee flavored use value, huh?