Coffee is already expensive enough as it is. But Dubai, in its relentless pursuit of gaudy, tasteless tackiness, has somehow turned the mostly utilitarian drink you use to wake your sleepy ass up in the morning into a ludicrously expensive extravagance.

CBS News reports that Julith Café, an (of course) upscale coffee shop tucked away within an industrial district, is now selling a $980 brew made from ultra-rare Panamanian “Nido 7 Geisha” beans.

Co-founder and barista-in-chief Serkan Sağsöz announced the arrival of the beans with the kind of fanfare usually reserved for royal decrees. And to be fair, the beans cost him more money than any of us will ever make in our lifetimes: roughly $600,000 for 20 kilograms after a bidding war in Panama. The café says it paid the highest price ever rec

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