Why being forced to work retail on T day is a big deal
There are always buisnesses open on T day: convenience stores, Pharmacies, first responders, people who either provided a service that can mean life or death, or small buisnesses that can be run by one or two people and close up early.
However, retail is NOT that sort of buisness. Retail will need tons of human-power to run, even more so than usual, as Madison Avenue is busy whipping the masses into a frenzy with sales called "doorbusters." They picked that term, though a more honest term would be "run over the employees." Bad behavior is encouraged, and employees will rightfully look upon this day with DREAD.
But what is worse is that Thanksgiving is the Holiday the starts the season, a holiday we in the US are supposed to share in common. Even if you want to cut out the religious/pilgrim side of it, every culture has had some sort of fall harvest festival to celebrate this time of year. That is because all cultures recognize the need for a Holiday, a time when people devote attention to their family, or even simple leisure. In a Holiday, commerce needs to hand over the wheel, and let people drive the culture for a while, however, brief it is.
When retail works on a Holiday, it means that nothign is sacred, and that the oligarchs realize they do not even need to pretend at virtue. They have moved on from trying to seduce us into givign up whatever dignity we had, to outright raping it out of us. Yes, I use that term, because to quote Eric Hoffer, we rightfully condemn those that would rape the body, but often ignore those who commit the rape of the mind." When even the most treasured holidays, that ones that families use to define their own sense of self, are subject to the whim of the oligarchs, it is something that violates us, something that forces us to say "because you are rich and I am poor, I have no right to resist you taking from me whatver you want, however you want it, sir."
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