Greed versus Health

01.27.05 (5:06 pm)

So, few days a week, due to time constraints, I buy breakfast on the fly and eat it while commuting. I usually stop by my local Burger King and buy a breakfast sandwich and a diet Coke, not the full meal deal including their version of potatoes.  I never got used to drinking coffee. So, I pay $3.44 for the deal including tax. Today, I thought I would try for a full meal and paid $3.35. Huh? I get more food for less money? How did that happen? I mean, how can I turn down that kind of offer? That got me thinking. If I get the full meals, I would actually save money and my thrift side seem to support this argument. However, if I buy the full meal, I would be consuming more calories and it would not be good for my health. Even if I don't eat the potatoes, that would mean I would be wasting the precious resources of our Mother Earth. The guilt would be tremendous. Well, at least it would make me think about it before I throw them out. As I was thinking, it seems to me that this is the SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for many US based corporations. I mean, they just want you to consume more and pay less, as long as the products you buy are theirs. Another good example if the local cable company. I have been a customer of DirecTV for number of years. I just love the Tivo system it comes with and can not live without it. Since I am just outside of the phone company's DSL radius, I can not get the broadband services from them. So I signed up for the cable modem serivce from my local cable company and was paying about $65 for it. Then I found out that they give discount for more services you buy from them. So, for another $2, I can get the basic cable TV service with HDTV. So, I took up on their offer. I know have the basic services from both the cable company and DirecTV and HDTV plus the broadband for only $2 more per month. I will never give up my Tivo. I just love it. So, now I am wasting all that resources by getting duplicate channels plus HDTV which I did not have before for only just more than what I was paying. There are so many other examples of this. If you really think about it, we are definitely the most wasteful nation in the world. With our corporation providing all the incentives to motivate our thrifty side, it will be hard to change this any time soon. Should we continue to abuse our resources or continue to take up on these great bargains. What is your thought? - eben

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