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the Met Gala but rather "where does the money go that's raised by the gala?" About the only thing I know about the Met Gala is "rich people showing up in extravagant outfits", so I hadn't before considered where the money went. I'm of mixed emotions when it comes to the money raised funding the museum; on the one hand, it's great to have a place where (some) people can go for free and spend an afternoon entertaining themselves by looking at beautiful art and it's great that an effort is made to preserve said art for future generations. OTOH, I freely admit that if *I* had $100,000 to give away, I'd rather use it to feed people or house people or somehow otherwise contribute to their daily living expenses.

Nothing, really. But I fully understand people choosing to not support Bezos and other billionaires by not looking at the pictures. I'm always interested in what people--ANY people--are boycotting at any given time and while I may not always agree with their reasons, I'm firmly behind people boycotting whatever the heck they want to boycott, for whatever reason.

On a related note...I've been thinking lately of ending my decade long boycott of Subway. We don't have a lot of fast food places in my home town (plenty in the towns around me though) and I used to love an occasional sweet onion chicken teriyaki sub. And then we found out their spokesperson was into kiddie p*rn, and then we found out Subway knew but didn't fire him immediately because...I guess because he was popular and brought customers in? I'm thinking a decade is long enough for all those involved in the Jared controversy to have retired, been fired or moved on. Do I think my boycott affected Subway? Nope, not in the slightest. But it eased my conscience to not support a business that valued profit over immediately firing a p*dophile.

OK, I have two thoughts here that will probably be HIGHLY unpopular...and that's OK, I'll own that <g>. First, yes there's a big gap between Bezos and his employees BUT a quick Google showed me the lowest of the low Amazon workers--the ones laboring in the warehouses fulfilling orders--are making an average of $23/hour. Not enough to live on in many places but a decent salary for many Midwestern areas and far more than the average fast food worker or retail worker. I feel that addressing pay gaps should start with fast food workers and retail workers and THEN move to Amazon workers*. It's also ironic that some of the people who boycotted the Met Gala are happily placing Amazon orders on a daily basis. I don't have Amazon Prime and I purchase from Amazon maybe 2-3 times a year, only buying things I absolutely cannot find in a brick and mortar store anywhere around me (such as the metal frames for the beaded snowflakes I'm making people for Christmas this year).

* Now if people were protesting the treatment of Amazon workers--long hours, shorter breaks, constant motion, etc.--that's a different conversation.

My second "likely to be unpopular opinion" is yes, absolutely AOC should've skipped the Met Gala and she especially shouldn't have worn her "tax the rich" gown. Some of my reasoning behind my opinion can't be posted here as it's more appropriate for the PB but I will say it was a total "read the room" moment for me and I found it incredibly hypocritical. If she'd stood outside the Gala holding a "tax the rich" sign, I would've been 1000% behind her actions.