T-Macksimus wrote:It's on par with taking something that is sacred/respected and totally trivializing it, belittling it and straight-up sh***ing all over it for the sake of making a quick buck. It's immoral, it's offensive and the worst part is, entirely too much of the population is partaking in it which lends even further to my opinion that the human species is one of the lowest, degenerate forms of life on this planet.
That's just my opinion, many of you wont like it or understand why I'm so adamant about it but then a lot of you would sell out your own families for pieces of "plastic crack".
Actually, that raises some questions that have long bothered me about Black Friday sales:
1. What portion of Black Friday shoppers are buying items for themselves, as opposed to others, or for their families as a whole?
2. What portion of Black Friday shoppers are able to take off a day outside of a holiday weekend, to go Christmas shopping?
3. What portion of Black Friday shoppers are in an economic bracket where they feel they can afford to pass up the deals offered on Black Friday?
I've long had
some concern that the door-buster Friday-only Black Friday sales are coercive/exploitative of the upper-lower to lower-middle SES classes, which is deplorable, but if I'm right in thinking that most BF shoppers are not privileged individuals, then the blame is not something that should be shuffled onto the consumers. I do not know if that's the case though, which actually has me wanting to rush a survey to the IRB now.
Oh, and there's two other relevant questions that bug me:
4. What portion of Black Friday shoppers recognize Thanksgiving as a 'true' holiday?
5. Among those who
do observe Thanksgiving, how many have something better to do on Friday?
That this post initially turned into what could be a good page or two of a research proposal tells me that it's a complicated scenario that I think has a lot to tell us about American culture and society.