If the barista makes $30,000 and the price of the latte has actually barely budged, then why is this such a horrible thing? Your point is that a starting salary of $30,000 is terrible on its own merits, then? Sorry my comments enrage you to snideness, also. You were the one asking if your "simple" arithmetic "bumfuzzled" someone in a mean way, and then you get angry when someone questions your arithmetic?