It truly is a day without dignity today. How can my country ask me to be so simple and narrow minded? Don't I live in a country of choice and ideals? No.way.man. This is a country of profit and how much bigger your dick is then the next asshole standing next to you. Buy one pair of shoes and we'll give another to a developing country? Whose lame idea was this? Anyone with half a mind knows that they have plenty of shoes over there. Market places are FILLED with shoe salesmen. It's not in a conventional sense but it is a business and they do make money to feed their families and wouldn't you know....BUY THEM A PAIR OF SHOES! It's just another ploy to suck the money out of our pockets and redistribute the wealth to the wealthiest people in the world. It's the most visible pyramid scheme ever that no one seems to notice. I have enlightened a few in my time but sometimes it just doesn't feel like enough. I can only hope they'll go tell someone else and so forth and such. I think it's time to WAKE UP WORLD!!! Look at all we have and all we're going to loose. It makes my stomach sick to think about how much we've wasted and never had to. My generation really needs to wake up. Maybe if we do the ones beneath us will get some sort of jolt to their chemically and psychologically altered brains. Something needs to happen and it needs to happen soon. I don't know what that could possibly be but I'm here thinking positive thoughts for my fellow man (although a good number of you need to be mentally slapped btw) and hoping for a brighter tomorrow. We are not getting any younger and neither is our planet. Why won't we take care of the place we live on? We only have one planet. I don't understand. I'm going to ponder these thoughts for a bit.
What if the kids' parents have no money to buy the shoes? If there are shoes there in the first place, doesn't it mean that consumer demand has driven the self-interest of business minded capital owners to offer a supply?
ReplyDeleteTherefore: if there are shoes - Capitalism Works!
If there are not shoes - then TOMS has a place correcting the deficiencies of the capitalist distributive model by exploiting the guilt of the overly wealthy while still operating capitalistically - offering shoes and redeeming capitalism!
I don't really know any non-ding-dongs who buy these shoes anyway. Much better that another yatch or G&T or urban outfitter toy, no? It became cool, forcing people who would otherwise not give a shit, to "donate" (yeah yeah not really) in order to maintain their social status! Bringing 'em down from the inside!