Augustine Sedgewick

“Історична батьківщина рослини, яка по-ботанічному називається Coffea arabica, — Ефіопія. Просто в XVI–XVII століттях кавою монопольно торгували арабські купці з єменського узбережжя Червоного моря, а в ту добу флорі давали латинські назви.”
― Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

“Most often hunger is understood to be a consequence of economic crisis or catastrophe—a famine, for example. In fact hunger is the bedrock foundation of all capitalist economies, though in some the bottom is far enough away that it usually remains invisible. The standard account of the relationship between hunger and work under capitalism focuses on land privatization. In principle, after common resources have been transformed into private property, the only way to eat is to sell labor in the market in exchange for a wage, and then spend that wage buying food. By this account, capitalism operates through a kind of economic deism: land privatization starts a clock on hunger that ticks away each working day.”
― Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug