Remember those days when you
were young and your mother or father would take you to the store and give you
five bucks? “Choose wisely,” they may have admonished and left you to stare at
the shelves in wonder, holding that crisp five dollar bill and feeling the
weight of the world on your shoulders. Five dollars is not a lot of money and even
a small purchase would wipe out most of it. Should you save it? The latest Transformer
was right in front of you and it was calling your name. But not only would that
use all of your money, you would need a small loan from the parental unit that
dragged you into the situation in the first place. Out of the corner of your
eye, you spot to aforementioned parent lumbering toward you. Time for decision
is running out. With a sigh, you recall the last time you asked for a loan. Not
only did you get shut down, you received a lecture on fiscal responsibility –
well, the seven-year-old appropriate version of a fiscal responsibility
lecture. Unwilling to walk out of the store empty-handed, you reach for the 98
cent yoyo. It doesn’t matter that you already own five of them; it is the only
item on the shelf that will allow you the satisfaction of a purchase and leave
you with enough left over so that you can purchase the Transformer the next
time you are given money to go shopping.
This decision process is something that the average adult
no longer has to go through. The concept of walking out of a store without the
item that you really and truly wanted – or at least thought you wanted – is nearly
obsolete.
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