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Christmas: Capitalism's Annual Orgasm
(icallbs.substack.com)
Now be a good consumer and show your love and commitment to christmas by spending money.
The generation before mine used to give people things like oranges. Not expensive tablets that landed in the trash at most two years later.
You can have christmas and presents without it becoming absurd.
I always tell people: "Give me nothing, please. And if you insist, then please give me something I can eat and which only temporarily needs space or just give me money and I buy something I need anyway."
And then I might buy food or cleaning equipment, the sort of things you need to buy all the time anyway.