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Amazon staff walk out in Black Friday strike
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Black Friday is the perfect American holiday. Originally called such by the retail workers bracing for the worst part of the shopping season and what it brought out in the people they had to serve, stripped of its meaning, renamed and rebranded as something to celebrate, gleefully ignoring the irony.
A "holiday" where the culture is consumerism. A false day. A day by an actual holiday, that ruins the real one.
a day that if you celebrate it as they intend, actually ruins the day of the people who created it! A day where the ones who thought it up HAVE to work. I could go on, but I'm just repeating myself. It's just too on the nose.
We don't even have Thanksgiving in the UK, but we somehow imported Black Friday. It lasts all fucking month and the prices are about what they are in any other sale.
We've only had it over here for about 10 years or so - Amazon started it and all the other companies jumped on the bandwagon.