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OP doesn’t specify, but I read the gripe as it’s a branded truck that’s basically an advertisement you pay to give to your kid. And it’s geared towards kids exactly to expose them at a young age and make a positive association that will pay off when they grow up.
I like UPS more as a company than FedEx or Amazon because it supposedly has a decent union and actually pays their employees. But the toy itself is still an ad, and I personally don’t view it any more highly than I view similar Amazon truck toys that pander to children. If it were some generic delivery truck I doubt anyone would even notice.
When I was a kid, Dad would bring home these little foam airplanes that the FedEx office in his building handed out as swag for people who used their services. I loved those things, and I’d be lying if that childhood positive association with FedEx didn’t have some small effect on my preferences as an adult – but it was free.. I think that’s a bit less insidious than paying for the privilege of giving my kid merch pushing a particular brand association on them.
I dunno, I had a Alpha Beta tractor trailer toy and I loved that damned truck.
Yah, replace the UPS with USPS and it’d be bangin
Well said, nothing to be ashamed of driving for a living.
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Just let them play Minecraft. It’s cheaper than Legos and they can’t choke on anything.
they can’t choke on anything
[cue clip of 11-year-olds talking on minecraft]
Step 1: Don’t have kids
Yeah, I don’t understand the need to breed many people get. I think more people than we think may have worms in their brains.
Evolution: spends billions of years exclusively selecting organisms that reproduce Lucidlethargy: “All these people having kids isn’t natural, They must have brain parasites, it makes no sense other wise” Evolution:
“Do YOU feel the Need? The Need to Breed?”
Need for Breed, now also on pc and switch
