When I was a young boy, my mother would give me a ten dollar bill and tell me that in my hand was my lunch money for the week. I would typically get two days' lunch plus a snack on another day when I was especially hungry. Keep in mind: in middle school, i was a meatball.
Nowadays the system is a little different. My parents put money on my lunch debit and it dwindles and dwindles until someone tells me I need more money and writes what I owe on a napkin, politely calling me "honey". Nowadays, one lunch costs close to ten dollars. Keep in mind: I'm no longer a meatball.
People hate sporting event pricing, but there's no alternative, so they deal with it. This is really the general rule of capitalism. Supply and Demand. The Jewish people were looked at negatively for charging interest, and still have stereotypes holding them down. Yet every American entrepreneur relies on jipping the consumer to make a quick, and rather large, profit. So is it any surprise that my average lunch was costing close to ten dollars? Until yesterday, that is.
Using nothing but text messaging and word of mouth around 1165/1200 students successfully boycotted the cafeteria food. Just one day after, talks took place to lower the prices. I honestly have never been prouder of my classmates. I was fired up. The moral of the story is that one needs to take a look around. Look at the things you buy, the places you shop. Just yesterday I was in Happy Harry's and I saw a Walgreens substitution for Old Spice body wash. Capitalism is, by and large, despicable. But do we have any other option?
Oh yeah, listen to "Maybe You Can Owe Me" by Architecture in Helsinki. Where has this song been all my life?
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yeah, how bout that? i really never thought that the school in general could do something like that. people would always puss out or whatever...<3 architecture but only that album with that song
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