From Michael Moore. I have to agree with this, because the few times I have gone out Black Friday shopping, there were a lot of obviously low income people out there snapping up the bargains. A valid viewpoint that made me think.... Did any of you venture out into Black Friday? Or did u issue your annual smug or pithy comments about the crazy idiots who camp out overnight and then storm through the doors of the local Best Buy or WalMart, trampling each other on their way to grab a $50 laptop. So who do u think those people are? Rich people? Ivy Leaguers? Parents with nannies in tow? No. Theyre poor people. Working people. People living from paycheck to paycheck. You think they want to spend half of Thanksgiving Day in the cold wrapped in a blanket in the parking lot of some soulless big box store? They have families. They might like to be home. But they know this is the one day of the year they get the chance to risk frostbite or a punch in the nose to get their kid a laptop that they otherwise couldnt afford. Theyre willing to get pushed and shoved and ridiculed on TV to get that one thing they hope might give their child a slightly better chance to have the life the hipsters at home laughing at them may have. Of course by the time they stumble into the electronics aisle, the 20 piece-of-crap laptops discounted to $50 are gone and all has been for naught. They then look around and see the cacophony of signs announcing 50% OFF! and, to cheer themselves up, they buy few things they dont need and leave. Tsk, tsk, the rest of us go - consumerism out of control! The Walton family and Wall Street sit back and watch the billions roll in. Yes, there are people shopping because theyre addicted and yes, some people are nuts about wanting to do the American version of Pamplona this weekend. I guess the one bright spot in Black Friday is that its the only thing thats black and unarmed in America that doesnt have to worry about being terminated.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:35:48 +0000
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