It's the running-shoe riots. From coast to coast Americans are lining up to pay two hundrd bucks for the latest Nike sneakers. Two hundred bucks for a pair of shoes that some eight year old kid in a Chinese sweat shop got paid twenty-five cents to put together. A couple dollars for the material, and a few cents for the invisible hand of the free market to deliver them to a retail outlet near you, and I can't see where Nike has even five bucks invested in this product.
American consumers are lining up in their thousands for a chance to sport the new kicks. Fist fights and gun battles are breaking out. Riot police are using pepper spray to subdue the frenzied mobs of shoe shoppers.
Meanwhile in other news from planet earth, my research director here at Falling Downs informs me that an estimated 20,000 children will die of starvation on Christmas day. That's something to think about while you're standing in that lineup at the mall.
Merry Christmas.
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