Why Do Rich People Love Bad Coffee So Much?

It’s not a celebrity home tour without some pods on display.

Why Do Rich People Love Bad Coffee So Much?

If you watch enough celebrity kitchen tours, you start to notice the trademarks of aspirational living in 2025: the $20,000 Wolf range, the wine fridge, the (decorative?) donabe, the inescapable brass pot-filler. Wrapped up in all of that fantasy about what life could look like with a $300,000 kitchen remodel in a $4,000,000 home is a touch of schadenfreude when I realize the wealthiest people out there are drinking the same kind of coffee I’ve drank at my saddest office jobs.