"You can't really get people what they actually want-a raise, a beach house, the reassurance that every decision they ever made was the correct decision. So we end up paying Jeff Bezos to overnight some kitschy piece of plastic that will sit in a landfill in six months."
"But this year, I think I've come up with a great idea that's super economical and, theoretically, should be easy enough for even the laziest last-minute man to wrap. Men everywhere gift us One Single Silent Night where they all just shut up. The world is pretty stupid right now, and has been for some time. Most of that stupidity comes from dumb yet powerful men saying things that would get the average human reported, fired, kicked out of the party, or excommunicated from society."
"Every time I tried to click away from one stupid thing, I was immediately assaulted by seven even more stupid things. I was already considering chewing a string of plugged-in Christmas lights when my neurons were assaulted by the dumbest "man says stupid thing" of all: a billionaire promoting his job-erasing and environment-destroying technology company by saying he "can't imagine" raising a baby without it."
Finding meaningful Christmas gifts becomes harder with age because many desires are unattainable, so people buy trivial items that become landfill waste. One proposed solution is gifting One Single Silent Night, when men collectively remain silent. Public discourse features frequent stupidity from powerful men who make remarks that would be unacceptable in normal social contexts. Working in media prevents fully logging off, producing constant exposure to such remarks and mounting frustration. A billionaire promoted a job-erasing, environment-destroying technology while claiming he "can't imagine" raising a baby without it. Sam Altman appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to promote ChatGPT.
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