Boston Globe writer Johnny Diaz wrote an article, "Being Cheap is the New Rule of Cool."
Oh boy, Johnny, it sure is cool that folks are drinking six-packs rather than going to hipster bars, making coffee rather than going to Starbucks, and shopping at thrift stores. Uh, maybe you forgot that most of the country lives like this and outside of a few condescending, jerk-O rich folks, we've always been cool. So cool that we eat out of dumpsters. So cool that we ride bikes not buses. So cool that we're the first to get laid off, the first to go homeless on the streets.
Look Johnny, what's totally NOT COOL is that folks shopping at screwed up corporate chains like Wal-Mart are considered hot-stuff. This is terrible. It's corporations like Wal-Mart that got us into this economic mess to begin with by screwing over small businesses and local economies. I'd rather see the indignant, broke-ass masses burning Wal-Mart down.
What's not cool is McDonalds burning down the rain forest and bringing heart-attack inducing food into poor neighborhoods because corrupt organic chains like Whole Foods have a monopoly on health and use it to serve rich, white people.
What's not cool is people getting take out and not leaving a tip for the hard-working people behind the counter. Johnny, paying tips IS cool. It fuels the local economy.
Furthermore, if you think that being thrifty is cool, you should check out the escalating numbers of homeless folks, the social service budgets being slashed, the lay-offs occurring throughout the country.
Urgh. Well, I'm off to be cool.
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