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The Cult of Starbucks

Sounds Like A Cult

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Starbucks and the Toxic Productivity Culture

Starbucks marketers are just geniuses at what they do and that's why this culture has become so much more than just coffee or even just anything that they created because the people really connected to it. I think Starbucks is literally a metaphor for like any hierarchy like Scientology you think you're gonna get more lessons when you transcend to this next level of courses or you're just getting more iceYeah I auditioned for Scientology for those commercials that they do right when I got here that's classic yeah they like trick you and I had to go into a room and cry right It was like a crying scene I was looking into a mirror crying and then I laughed and was just getting so much stuff from them

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