Benjamin Myers

Happy to find a warm spot in the sun to rest.

[Benjamin Myers @roasterben]

@HoopMixOnly When children of successful individuals, raised with obscene levels of economic privilege, are given jobs over others, who are considered more qualified for the position, it triggers a compassion-based distaste for the fundamental inequalities in society.

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"...there's one company called JAB Holding Company, and it's controlled by this very secretive family in Germany, the Reimanns. And JAB Holding Company sells more coffee than Starbucks. So JAB owns the following brands - Peet's, Caribou, Campos, Stumptown, and..

[Benjamin Myers @roasterben]

"Wolfgang Reimann and his family own 95% of the firm. Wolfgang alone has a net worth of $5.4 billion. The family is one of the richest families in the world – the five Reimann siblings are estimated to have a combined net worth of at least $20 billion." - Gabriella Oakley

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...shop-sold coffee in America." - Eric Schlosser on Fresh Air April 18, 2024

[Benjamin Myers @roasterben]

.. Intelligentsia, Keurig and Green Mountain Coffee. So you think you're getting these little coffee brands, but it's owned by this German, Luxembourg-based company. And back to monopoly power - three companies, Starbucks, Dunkin and JAB, control more than 80% of the coffee ...

[Benjamin Myers @roasterben]

@sharonfterry Can't wait to watch recordings of DP's work. When will we be able to access videos/audio? There is so little available on-line. I wish there was easy access to Heider's work as well. I used to watch old videos when I lived at Esalen. Great tools for aspiring facilitators.

[Benjamin Myers @roasterben]

@GavinNewsom block the Pac-12 being dismantled! The move is bad for California's ecology. Ask for a comprehensive impact study of all @UCBerkeley, @Stanford teams/fans/officials flying back and forth to @FloridaState @BostonCollege @miamiuniversity etc. for ten years.

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A process for electing a new speaker of the house should take congress no more than three hours to complete. Within three hours you could have four rounds of voting where the stakes are escalated each round. #SpeakerVote

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@SpinninBackfist Henry should get a free PK on the Doc's family jewels and get to tell him the same message.

[Benjamin Myers @roasterben]

The mucky perspectival lens of media is a bad carnival ride. Each platform is so obviously entrenched in the jaws of bias. Each feeding their carefully cultivated beast by preaching to repetition. The crazy continues to grow fat. Truth is indeed a pathless land.

[Benjamin Myers @roasterben]

@yalies4pali Standing in solidarity with any community requires encouraging non-violent peaceful resistance to challenges while condemning ethical relativism and acts of violence.

[Benjamin Myers @roasterben]

Transparency encourages authenticity, authenticity provides feedback, feedback creates balance, balance is the foundation of strength, stength supports courage, courage walks into the dark cave.

[Benjamin Myers @roasterben]

We must authentically and democratically work to expose and improve working conditions & champion social equity for the people who plant, cultivate, pick, prune, process, and ship coffee. The farmer is not the landowner. Create space to face the dragons lurking in plain site.

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@CNN Ask them what price they paid for green coffee from farmers across all of their holdings. Then look up the amount coffee growers need to get paid per pound to be at a humane decent wage and above the poverty line.

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@CNN That is less than 0.02% of their net worth. The average person pays a higher percentage of their net worth for parking tickets. It's not okay that they gained their position in the marketplace by benefitting from atrocities.

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"In my films I championed the cause of the gentle, the poor, the downtrodden. Yet I had begun to live like the Aga Khan. The curse of Hollywood is big money. It comes so fast it breeds and imposes its own mores, not of wealth, but of ostentation and phony status." -Frank Capra

[Benjamin Myers @roasterben]

@AnnieRigzin really enjoyed your latest article in @tricyclemag entitled "The Big Picture." Loved the opening line: We are children of the big bang.