This is why I believed in Santa till I was like 10. One year, my sister and I got a couple big presents, but I knew my folks were in a bad financial spot. “There’s no way Mom and Dad could afford this, it must’ve been Santa!”
Turns out it was just more debt :(
But you know what, I bet your folks would do it all over again in a heartbeat. I imagine your excitement was worth it for them.
“It’s the hope that’s important. Big part of belief, hope. Give people jam today and they’ll just sit and eat it. Jam tomorrow, now – that’ll keep them going forever.”
AND YOU MEAN THAT BECAUSE OF THIS THE POOR GET POOR THINGS AND THE RICH GET RICH THINGS?
“’s right,” said Albert. “That’s the meaning of Hogswatch.”
Death nearly wailed.
BUT I’M THE HOGFATHER! He looked embarrassed. AT THE MOMENT, I MEAN.
“Makes no difference,” said Albert, shrugging.
- Hogfather, Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU)
THIS IS WRONG. Death hesitated. I MEAN…IT’S RIGHT TO BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT. BUT YOU’VE GOT TO HAVE SOMETHING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT HAVING. THERE’S NO POINT IN BEING HAPPY ABOUT HAVING NOTHING.
Yeah Santa is very classist, he believes giving to the poor will create a dependence on welfare and drug checks the poor kids before giving them even cheap things
I love that meme format. Where is it from?
Probably from this episode of Cunk on Britain 😁
To be fair, so does everybody else.
