We value things more than each other.

Amazon’s workers are on strike due to unfair worker compensation and unsafe working conditions.

My mother works in a post office in a smaller town, I was lucky to see her for Christmas.

Door to door, ice sheet to snow bank, she’d deliver the cards and boxes of trinkets we think our loved ones need. Beyond the packages sent, fliers became a focus. Paid per flyer, this became an incentive to equal out her extra work she’d be putting in.

Advertisement after advertisement, we the people need more.

Just think if we stopped buying things for each other and just stopped by for dinner. Take it a step further and go ice skating together, spend time with each other and not money.

If you have no time, you’re doing it wrong.

However. If there’s something that really supplements your life, and it’s on sale, who am I to denounce it.

I’ve wanted an iPad for years. I finally purchased one after going on a social media detox. It is full of books, utilities, photography assistants and most importantly zero social media.

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Stop using people abroad to fake-like people local.

Just go see them.