Reply #18: Raw story also had a feature today about Action Comics #1 selling for $1.5 million [View All]

[Amerigo Vespucci]

The first comic to feature Superman, and someone ponied up $1.5 million for it:

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Superman_comic_sells_for_record_1_5_03292010.html

So yes, when I read two stories like that back to back, I have to wonder.

A year or so ago, I posted a thread about having to run into Trader Joe's for some one-item purchase...don't even remember what it was. The woman in the line next to me had a full cart...right up to the top...which, I know, Trader Joe's carts are smaller, but a full cart is a full cart. She was buying all kinds of "personal pizzas" and stuff like that, yuppie comfort food. I heard the clerk when he have her the total...it was like 350 bucks.

Some woman on DU went ballistic...don't remember who it was, and I don't think I ever had a reply from them in one of my threads after that (maybe she put me on ignore).

"WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DO, LIVE LIKE A PAUPER AND WEAR SACK CLOTH???"

I very politely told her that I was pointing out the gap between people losing their jobs and homes and those whou could afford $350 shopping carts filled with yuppie comfort food. I told her that what she does with her life is of no interest or concern to me, and it's none of my business. Just like the woman in Trader Joe's...I made an observation, that's it, who cares.

But yes, elderly people are living on the streets while someone is buying a $1.5 million comic book. Such is life.