
If you’re after that bitter taste, chicory is an option. You can compose it with milk and everything like coffee. The taste is a bit different, more herbal (which makes sense…). Sometimes I add a bit of cinnamon to it, that marries very well. But it has no caffeine. I almost fully replaced my coffee consumption already. One of its benefits is you can totally have a cup before sleeping!
It is common to mix it with coffee by the way!
Once you start to have money, you get a money dependency. No matter how rich you get, the “baseline you really need to live the life you want and nothing more” growths together with your wealth.
Take lottery winners and ask them if they could give away half of their gains. Will you be surprised if most of them say no, even though the day before they would have set their “minimum needed to live a happy life for the rest of my days” at a much smaller fraction of it?
Now take a similar population, but who in addition rationalized them deserving that money through their hard work and talent.