Did you find the fun you were seeking?
Jon Carroll asks a good question — why do we think our income is so disposable?
Now, you know you are being ripped off. You know that. You even say it to your friends. Almost all of us play the game. Usually we don’t talk about it, but we don’t kid ourselves, either. We spend too much money. It’s hard not to. We live in a culture where buying consumer goods is almost a patriotic duty, where people are defined by the stuff they own, where people “deserve” a diamond or a vacation or a night on the town. […] Did you find the fun you were seeking?
(Via Cogito Ergo Sumana )
This article baffled me. Who the hell pays $40 for parking? $30 for a plate of chicken, is he crazy? And who buys movie snacks instead of smuggling in cookies and fruit leather in her purse?
It's not even that I live in the Midwest, because we didn't pay $40 for parking when we lived in the Bay Area, either. *Or* any damn $30 for chicken. *Honestly* Don't these people have aunties who make fun of them for doing this?
Posted by Mris on January 20 2004 05:55
Unfortunately, some of them have friends who make fun of them for not doing that.
One can only hope that they'll come to the understanding someday that it's the "friends" who are, in fact, worthless.
Posted by Jimcat on January 20 2004 09:16