recovering economist
Let’s be gentle when OUR kids realize this too, ok?
(Maybe resist the urge to launch into politics over it, and just love them.)
I now remember that day as an awakening. I had never known there were families without enough to eat. Amid all the decorations and songs and parties surrounding our most magical holiday, it had never occurred to me that some parents might do without the luxury of socks for their children simply because they couldn’t afford them.
-Andy Andrews, Socks For Christmas
From the cheap seats, everything looks a little different, doesn’t it?
In fact, it is undeniably true that you can see the game better on TV than you can from attending the game in the cheap seats.
One could even argue that you can see the game better on TV than you can from the luxury seats…
But what’s more important?
Paying an arm and a leg to be at the big game? Or seeing the details of the game for free on TV?
Not that most of us can afford Superbowl tickets, even in the worst seats available.
From the cheap seats, the game looked like a dispute in the distance, something that was none of your goddamn business.
-Rich Cohen, Monsters