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cmn32480
on Monday November 21 2016, @03:48PM
from the all-I-want-for-Christmas-is-my-two-front-teeth dept.
from the all-I-want-for-Christmas-is-my-two-front-teeth dept.
Soon to be upon us is Black Friday — the time of year when retailers try and outdo each other to corner extra sales. In recent years, retailers have been springing their deals earlier and earlier trying to get a jump on the other retailers. Some amazing deals can be had if you know where and when to look.
In light of that, what things are you hoping for? New computer? Mobile phone? Tablet? Game?
Alternatively, what great deals have you found (both on-line and brick-and-mortar)?
I think it would be wonderful if someone, by posting a wishlist item here, were able to find a great deal known by someone else in the community.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Monday November 21 2016, @04:47PM
Exactly what I was going to post. Consumerism comes at the cost of actual culture.
You can have art in public spaces or you can have ads on everything.
You can have fights with strangers over 10% off a flatscreen or you can relax with your family while having leftover homecooked turkey.
You can make retail employees work thanksgiving day so their company can be the first to start black friday or you can be a decent person.
America has made its choice, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be part of that.
(Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Monday November 21 2016, @05:46PM
So what you really mean to say is...
Buy online.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 21 2016, @08:14PM
Buy Nothing Day is every day for poor people. Are poor people welcome at your social gathering for fake anti-consumerism? Of course not. Because it's a social gathering for rich yuppie scum who want to be miserly together. They have money, but they don't spend for a day, so they all feel slightly richer the next day. It's sickening.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday November 21 2016, @11:13PM
Exactly.
Last year on Black Friday, I looked online and found that a trailer hitch I had been wanting for my car was significantly discounted for the holiday, so I bought one. It didn't take me much effort, just a few clicks, certainly no driving around and standing in line or anything like that.
Why does anyone do that stuff anymore anyway?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @12:47AM
Exactly what I was going to post. Consumerism comes at the cost of actual culture.
Define "actual culture." Are you one of those people who says "tisk, tisk, this young people with their hippity-hoppity music. They are so low brow. They should be going to the ballet or opera, the real culture of a people, whether they like it or not!"
Consumer culture is a culture. You may not personally agree that getting the latest Prada handbag to show off to your girlfriends is worthwhile. I certainly don't, but I also don't begrudge others for enjoying it.
Or would you like to list your hobbies and interests? I guarantee I can find people who would scoff and dismiss it, too.
You can have art in public spaces or you can have ads on everything.
You can have fights with strangers over 10% off a flatscreen or you can relax with your family while having leftover homecooked turkey.
Some people think saving $500 is worth it (I can wait in line 2 hours to get it... that's effectively getting paid $250 an hour). Some people find it fun ("I beat the other customers and won!"). For some people this is their opportunity to get the dream TV/Computer/whatever they've been wanting for for forever but couldn't quite get their budget to stretch enough to afford. Why begrudge them that?
Why is having turkey better? I could wax poetic at the number of dry and tasteless turkeys I've had through the years. Yes, you are with family... but shopping can be (and usually is) a family experience as well.
And what about those people without family?
You can make retail employees work thanksgiving day so their company can be the first to start black friday or you can be a decent person.
You can make the jobless person who is desperate for a paycheck to pay for this week's groceries (let alone this month's rent) won't get that seasonal retail job just so you can deadbeat layabout wasting time at home, or you can be a decent person.
See? I can be accusative and one-sided, too.
I'll note that nobody forced those people to work those seasonal jobs. They do it of their own volition and free choice, so presumably they'd rather have a paycheck than whatever other things you think they "should" be doing.
"But AC, the system is set up so they need to work those jobs. If they didn't they wouldn't qualify for unemployment, the retailers are being subsidized by tax credits, etc..." Okay, I'll grant you ALL of those... but for those individuals working those jobs, would their situation be better or worse if those temporary seasonal jobs didn't exist? If you want to eliminate them, fix the social safety net first so these people don't actually need to work those jobs.
America has made its choice, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be part of that.
You've made your choice. I can respect that. In many ways, I'm actually in agreement with your life choices.
Can you respect others who have a different perspective?