I’m with the aliens on this one. Celebrating an approximate orbit seems silly but fine, but then we throw so much into it. So many people put real mental trauma on the line because they think one day of the cycle is better for making personal changes than any other. And the amount of money that is spent is just gross. Think of how many people could be fed just for what is spent on confetti - in literally turning useful paper into garbage and dropping it on people (NYC alone dropped 100,000lbs of it last year).
I’m with the aliens on this one. Celebrating an approximate orbit seems silly but fine, but then we throw so much into it. So many people put real mental trauma on the line because they think one day of the cycle is better for making personal changes than any other. And the amount of money that is spent is just gross. Think of how many people could be fed just for what is spent on confetti - in literally turning useful paper into garbage and dropping it on people (NYC alone dropped 100,000lbs of it last year).