Yeezys: Part 2

   So in the last blog post I talked about Yeezys and how the shoes are just so darn expensive for the prduct you're actually getting. But apparently there is also a Yeezy brand of clothing too, and it's just as (if not more) overpriced as the footwear. A T-shirt, just a plain old tan-ish brown T-shirt: $340. A plain hoodie that you wouldn't see at Target for over 30 bucks: $480. Some awful-looking peach sweatpants that you could probably find at a Goodwill store: $570. And on, and on, and on.

It makes me question the current sanity of the human race. If someone told me these "trendy" clothes that aren't too pretty or fashionable would sell for half a thousand dollars successfully, I'd tell them they should probably check into a mental hospital. But yet here we are. What really peeves me off is that people are actually buying this stuff. According to the website these pictures came from, many of the items are all ready sold out. Of course, they may be exaggerating, or they didn't have much stock because they thought no one was going to buy this garbage in the first place, but I doubt it.
This whole thing shows the corruption of corporate America. Some person famous for making mediocre at best music is able to create a clothes line of plain stuff you would find at Target, and then market it to millions at overly expensive prices, and have them ACTUALLY BUY IT. Think about it. There are companies and businesses working to provide affordable yet stylish clothing for less fortunate people, but then this utter douche comes along and pressures the American people to buy his product for about 20x what it's actually worth. I can't tell who's dumber here: the people who actually buy these products, or whoever is manufacturing them in the first place.
Then Kanye is going to run for president in 2020, too. Imagine if he wins. The entire nation is just turned into corporate greed (as if it isn't all ready) and our society crumbles. I hope he was joking and it's just a publicity stunt. 

Shoes

           What the heck is the purpose of buying an expensive shoe? Okay, sure, you want to look fashionable and trendy. But are you willing to spend literal thousands of dollars so that you can have the latest look? Because that's what Kanye West is asking (or demanding, it's all the same to Kanye) of you. His "Yeezy" brand shoes can sell from 2,000-3,000 USD. And the shoes don't even look too great either. Seems incredulous that anyone would ever spend their hard earned cash on such an item. But yet they are selling like mad, and most "Yeezy" items are sold out on Kanye's website. So what psychological reason do people have for wasting this mass amount of money? Well I think it simply originated from a large amount of rich people buying them simply because they can. The shoes became trendy due to the mass advertising, especially because they're a celebrity's item, and celebrities have the marketing power of a god. The whole situation then became a peer pressure effect, where poor and middle class people were pressured into buying an overly expensive piece of footwear that they convinced themselves that they need and have enough money to buy, even if they can barely afford rent and food. That might seem a bit extreme and overly specific, but I've seen this same situation in many of my relatives with other items too (like the hoverboard that doesn't hover and is barely even a board). Shoes like these are just meant to take advantage of people, whether they be poor or rich, and pressure them into buying something they subconciously don't need or want. It disgusts me. 

Annoying neighbors

          There's these two families on my block that would rather play with their kids and let their kids play without them in the street rather than in their backyard or at the park. And I live in a neighborhood where our backyards aren't so huge, but are big enough to be functional. Why put your child in danger by letting them play in the front yard and in the street rather than just taking them to a park? The worst part is, these kids like to shout and scream whenever they're having fun (like any 5-9 year old child) and they have fun RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET where every single house on the block can hear them shouting and screaming, especially when you're someone like me, trying to concentrate on writing this blog while the window is open and these stinking kids are right outside making tons and tons of noise. At least they don't do that during the night or else that would be a viable reason to write a report to the police that they're "disrupting the peace".
         And then there's this one family behind us that are pretty bad, too. Whenever the dad has to make any phone call at all, he goes right to the back fence of his house and starts yapping loudly to whoever the heck he's talking to, So basically, he's standing right at the fence next to our house, talking on his cell phone, loud enough to the point where you can hear him no matter where you are within the house. Pretty great guy. The mother and children are no better, too. Once every two days or so, you can hear the mother (also in the backyard near our fence, also very loud) yelling at and occaisonally screaming at her youngish (5-6 years old) children, who then begin to cry, making even more noise and driving me slowly insane.
        The worst part is, these two situations are from relatively new neighbors who arrived sometime within the last year. So while my early childhood was spared from being annoyed to all hell, I haven't had time to adapt to and become used to these idiots. Also, if you're reading this and you are one of the annoying, stupid neighbors, please know that everyone would like you much, much more if you kept your internal affairs INSIDE your house and not in the middle of the street or in the backyard right next to someone else's property. Thanks.