Tuesday, September 12, 2006

WTF Mate?! Do you care about an Australian Mall?

This story by John Fiske is ridiculous. Malls are open to the general public and therefore everyone is allowed in whether or not they intend on buying anything. I fail to see how not buying something makes you weak. If someone sees something they want but don't actually need and they don't buy it they are showing a strong will. It is easy to spend money, saving it is the hard part. If you only let in people that were looking for something to buy then the mall would be a much emptier place and quite impossible because you can't force someone to buy something in every store they go in. Just imagine all the people that go to the mall with no intention to buy anything only to see something they really like and splurge. If these people were cut off from the mall think of how much business the stores would lose. Going back to Woodruff Park think of how making the mall inhospitable for such a large group of people make less and less people want to go there. If the so-called "strong" are so dependent on the "weak" buying from them then maybe they are not as strong as we think.

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