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I guess I tend to read the subtext of it as:

You would spend $2 on just a cup of coffee. The entire concept is that a cup of coffee is a minor thing, you buy it practically without considering it's tangible benefit.

It's supposed to shock you into thinking Wow they are right I should spend money on product x since it is less than this thing I buy out of habit more than for its value

You can read it as a statement of "$2 is not very much money at all" - but then I have a problem with comparing unrelated products that simply happen to share a price point.

"You'd spend 20 bucks going to the cinema, why would you not spend the same amount on a garden fork?"

In the end the blogpost was suggesting that you cannot compare your product to a coffee, because you don't know how much I value that coffee beyond that I am willing to spend $2. This gives you no information about how I would value your service, because it is not a coffee based product being served to me with a smile.



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