I work up this morning, Black Friday in the consumer world, to find my granddaughter, grandson and daughter-in-law sitting around the kitchen table circling ads for stuff from yesterday’s abundant advertising sections. I am not sure what they were doing since no one was going shopping today. Perhaps my wife had asked them to circle possible gifts. My eight year granddaughter took the exercise to new heights by circling almost everything in the ad section she was using.
I took my cup of coffee and breakfast food into the dining room to eat. I read the newspaper often at breakfast this was a little too much for me early in the morning. This was the first Black Friday with my daughter-in- law I can remember when she did not go shopping on Black Friday. She wrote in her Facebook page that this was one of her best Thanksgivings.
I try not to be critical to consumerism but when I see low income people rushing the thru the doors of Wal-Mart to get some early shopping specials I cannot help but feel a little sadness and of the documentary about Wal-Mart, The High Cost of Low Price.
Some employees of Wal-Mart picketed the stores today and were supported by other people. Wal-Mart sent out PR downplaying the pickets but by now most people know about out the poor treatment of Wal-Mart by its employees and the extraordinary effort they have taken to keep employees from forming a Union. Wal-Mart has jobs and money so will continue to do what they do as long as they can.
Tonight watching a “Person to Person” TV show tonight interviewing doctors and scientist who study the behavior of very young babies my belief that we are born hard wired for fairness and altruism was deepen. So I believe that sharing and fairness will overcome Wal-Mart and greed. It is just a matter of time.
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