The xmas shopping season's Black Friday?
No, Buy Nothing Day. Where we get reminded by Adbusters how unhappy and unsustainable we are.
I like this take better:
Buy Nothing Day celebrates the decision not to consume. But most of the world lacks the ability to make such a choice. Rather than promoting guilt for being wealthy and healthy, we ought to empower the less-fortunate members of our world to become as wealthy as we are. The poor of the world must speak out against such elitist paternalism--they have nothing to lose but their poverty.
Thx: Scott Hughes comment on this Lifehacker post.
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