It Ain't Corporate Greed, It's Called "Marketing"

"Some of the more popular kids in school are the kids that are rich -- they have a lot of money and can afford cool stuff like leather jackets, iPod Nanos, cell phones. Cell phones are a big thing. They think you need money to be cool. Their parents give them money just to go buy stuff, whatever they want. Some kids even have credit cards. But some of the more popular kids don't have many friends 'casue they're mean to other kids. But if you're nice to people, like I am -- well, sometimes -- that's how I get friends. You don't need to have cool things to have friends."

Alex Amundson
6th grader at Lakeville
from 11/28/05 Ant Farm in the St. Paul Pioneer Press