Of all the common luxuries we have that were unavailable to even the Tudor court – central plumbing and heating, the automobile, the lightbulb – the ability to make coffee in the morning is among the ones for which I am most grateful.
I have a drip coffee maker, nothing special, but it provides a bit of civility and pleasure in the course of morning ablutions.
Sure, I enjoy the better things as much as the next person, but without a full-time caretaker, heated pools, high definition TVs, luxury cars would be a maintenance burden.
Bottom line, having a bed to sleep in with no Cobra snakes crawling around on the floor, a roof that doesn’t leak, heat in the winter, electricity to run essentials like the computer and the furnace, reliable transportation, and a coffeemaker are pretty much everything I and probably most of the human race would like to have to be comfortable and productive.