by Erik Kain on November 27, 2011
Yesterday I wrote that people shopping from big box and online retailers can save money and use that saved cash to spend on local food and entertainment. A lot of people seemed to miss my point. Some asked why I would want to put an end to local businesses. Of course, I never said anything [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 25, 2011
I suspect that at the heart of Robert Frank’s New York Times piece about ending the Black Friday madness rests two things: first, a sense that such overt consumerism is the hallmark of capitalism and that capitalism is somehow morally insufficient; and second, a distaste for the aesthetic of Black Friday – all those plebes [...]
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