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Caffeine must be one of, if not the, most used drug. It is vital to the operation of more or less every industry.

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[–] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Info Tech would crumble day 1

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[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most mathematicians will be in jail.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I think productivity would increase after about a month of global caffeine withdrawal. Plus heart attacks would probably decrease

[–] CCatMan@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Caffeine as an additive to drinks is weird.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Its a bittering agent. Though I'll admit the mild psychotropic effects are probably why we use it instead of the myriad other things that are just as bitter and probably safer to consume overall.

[–] MisterChief@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Same thing that happens with most drugs. It'll still get in, prices will skyrocket, and it'll be laced with fentanyl so instead of enjoying a nice cup of coffee, you'll die because the government tried to tell you what you can do to your own body again.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The entire premise of this question seems insane. The only industry in which caffeine is vital is probably the coffee industry.

Yeah, there would be a black market and what not but that doesn't mean the world would stop turning off supply ran out.

[–] Buffalobuffalo@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t forget many types of tea have similar levels of caffeine. And US started a whole war over a tax on tea much less a ban.

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[–] joeyv120@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps some people would stop punishing their own bodies for the benefit of their employer.

Ha, I drink way more coffee on the weekends than I do during the work week. It's definitely a recreational drug for me.

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The pyramids were built without coffee.

Make of that what you will.

[–] radix@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~Weren't they built with slave labor...?~~

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

Anyone who comes between me and my tea leaves is a dead man.

Especially on a Monday.

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If people couldn't find alternatives and caffeine wasn't illegally available...

Many people who need coffee to function in the morning would lose their shit. Overworked people and workers with really long shifts will not be able to keep up. People would probably fall asleep at work.

[–] radix@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

This made me realize people would probably fall asleep while driving and cause unusably congested highways all across the country, potentially causing supplies shortages.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would take a 30 minute nap every day after lunch.

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[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Have a headache for a few days. And reorganize everything to not start the workday before noon.

Everyone would be miserable at first, so you wouldn’t want to be out in public for the first week or so, then after the withdrawal subsided it would be more or less back to normal. I went off caffeine for a while, once you get over the hump you realize you don’t actually need it as much as you thought.

[–] Moghul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'd have a rough few weeks coming off my 8 espressos a day habit but I'd get over it eventually

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