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First, there's a selection problem: you don't hear/see these complaints from the people who did what you propose.
The internet in general has this problem to a much greater degree than people realize.
Imagine you manufacture toaster ovens. You build 1M units and sell them on amazon. 10 of them catch fire and burn down peoples houses, the other 999,990 units function fine.
The social media, amazon reviews, etc will all skew heavily negative mainly because no one bothers to write a review if they buy a toaster and it toast their bread. However the 10 people who lost their houses will all write scathing reviews.
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That makes sense, since I'm only seeing the complainers, and all the other people that are balls deep in 8 euro coffee might be living their best life.
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First, there's a selection problem: you don't hear/see these complaints from the people who did what you propose.
Second, I imagine some people wish they had taken steps to avoid the expense beforehand, but in the moment would rather have the coffee than not, so they're sort of mad at themselves but directing it at the vendor.
Then there are the people who derive satisfaction from complaining about their plight in life. The coffee may not be worth eight bucks to them, but the coffee plus getting to complain to their friends is worth it.
That's my conventional economics take on the situation.