The answer to the question "could a coffe maker be worth $11,000?" is, obviously, yes, if you're the owner of a coffee shop that's now going to be able to con his customers into paying ten bucks for a cup of coffee.

Otherwise, the answer is no, of course not. The rich and the wanna-look-like-they're-rich are just tripping over themselves to find ways to display wealth. It's no surprise that one of Cafe Grumpy's locations is in Greenpoint, which used to be a perfectly decent neighborhood where working people could actually afford to live. Now they're being pushed out by the kind of ostentatious creep who would be happy to be fleeced by the owner of this ridiculous machine. I'm certainly not sorry that Grumpy's customers are getting fleeced, but I wish it wasn't at the expense of all those ordinary people getting kicked out of Greenpoint.

It would be endlessly amusing if one of these machines were to short-circuit and burn the joint to the ground. Sure, I hope there wouldn't be anyone in the place, and that there wouldn't be any injuries, especially not to the firemen (none of whom could afford to drink coffee there), but still, it might help restore my faith that there's justice in the world after all.

Yeah, it's extravagent and I wouldn't shell out that much for coffee, but I've got news; there are much bigger injustices than an $11,000 coffee machine. While we're at it, we can torch all the five-star restaurants, burn all the Mercedes and BMW's, destroy the vineyards, etc. People like their frivolities, and as long as they don't pollute the air too much with their smug, I don't mind.

So how's that "class envy" thing working out for you?

Why not spend time and energy becoming rich

rather than wasting time and energy bemoaning the rich.

Why you're at it, please define "rich" for me.

I'm not sure I know what that is...

Don't you know? Coffee is the opiate of the masses.