Consumer woes
2008-05-21 | Filed Under Amusing |
Geof Greenleaf once put it very succinctly: “A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.”
If you expand this from a single person to an entire culture, the news provides fascinating insight into the consumer priorities of different countries. Americans tend to get annoyed at the high gas prices. The English are displeased by ever-rising grocery costs. Germans can rant for hours about how expensive beer has become in recent years.
A recent news item provided beautiful insight into the Belgian culture: of all the things in the world that are increasingly unaffordable, they are rebelling against the price for a plate of chips, even using phrases like “potato cartell”. :D
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Well hey, as long as they don’t start calling them “freedom fries”… ;P