> Yeah, it's OTT and wasteful, but they don't care. Western Capitalism is the scourge of the world.
Well how evil of them. IN contrast, US americans burn of a couple of millions worth in fireworks each 4th of july while just the same people starve in the Congo because they aren't clever enough to make it in a capitalist world, or because of evil colonialism in the 19th century.
And the west Europeans spending money on rockets at New Years Eve have their own reasons.
In truth I think it's more complicated than all that. It's not really that people don't care. For a lot of people it's the feeling of helplessness, that donating 30 bucks instead of spending them on the frivolity of the moment is a drop on a hot stone at best.
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Well how evil of them. IN contrast, US americans burn of a couple of millions worth in fireworks each 4th of july while just the same people starve in the Congo because they aren't clever enough to make it in a capitalist world, or because of evil colonialism in the 19th century.
And the west Europeans spending money on rockets at New Years Eve have their own reasons.
In truth I think it's more complicated than all that. It's not really that people don't care. For a lot of people it's the feeling of helplessness, that donating 30 bucks instead of spending them on the frivolity of the moment is a drop on a hot stone at best.