How does it make sense to project that calculation onto another person to begin with? Their time is not yours, and every person values their time differently. It means your statement of them doing a vast number of things wrong must inherently be false, because there is no objective "wrong" there.
I've been a "time-peeler" for a large part of my life, and when I stopped being such, I became way more productive. This happened because I started to waste less and less time on things which didn't really matter.
In certain cultures where most of the people watches TV, for hours every day (in average), then you start to see what's wrong with saving 57 seconds.
In addition to that, somebody pointed that the structure is incredibly wasteful. For some reason, there's this widespread vision of sustainability where the responsibility is somebody else's. If this is not accepted in simple things at the bottom, where should it starts from?
In this terms, the comments make sense, although of course, it's not possible to say if it applies to a given person.
With these things in mind, while there are no "objective wrongs", in the big perspective, there are objective foolishnesses, to say the least.
Previously I had the Nespresso Lattissima Premium[2] (the top-of-the line pod machine). I liked the Nespresso coffee fine, but the Primadonna makes better coffee and is no more trouble to use (It's also twice the price...).
The clean up is exactly the same for both machines - you press a button to run steam though the milk frother, detach it and put it in the refrigerator. You press the "rinse" button and it runs water through the coffee system to clean that.
~Once a week you empty the grounds container or the empty pods container.
The one trick is to only put as many beans as you a planning on using immediatly in the bean dispenser. It can take a lot more, but as they get exposed for longer they get more bitter.
[1] http://www.delonghi.com/en-AU/products/coffee/coffee-makers/...
[2] http://www.delonghi.com/en-AU/products/coffee/coffee-makers/...
The time I spend grinding the coffee is part of the enjoyment.
http://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/bbbb918e28fa404b836...
I much prefer that machine to the crappy k-cup machines.
Basically it's a machine with 3 compartments:
Coffee, Decaf Hot Chocolate
And you can push a button, it grinds, and outputs your cup.
I prefer it vastly to the k-cups.
They do tend to be more expensive though.
It might make me lazy, but every second I am not cleaning my coffee device I can be doing something else.