What happened to us?

So I've always thought there was something wrong with this society we live in today...the one where parents let their children sit on their butts and play video games all day, where parents let their children become obese by giving them whatever food they want, where the children can't even recognize when they're older that there is a problem...

However, I was recently introduced to a product that led me to believe even more that something has gone horrible wrong with us...a lollipop spinner. We are so lazy and selfish that someone decided to make a product that allows us to not even have to put ourselves through the burden of twirling a lollipop around...it can now be done electronically as long as we just hold it up to our mouths. What's next...a lollipop stand so we just have to stick our mouths in front of it without holding it?

Clap-on lights that allow us to just sit and only move our hands, devices that allow us to turn our cars on and start them before even getting anywhere close...it's disgusting.

There are people living in underdeveloped countries eating mud to keep themselves from starving, inevitably dying from disease caused by bacteria, and we invent lollipop spinners!?

"But this creates jobs!" Some people try to argue...

But these "jobs" pay less than $0.25 an hour to children in sweatshops in foreign countries...what kind of jobs are these? Why not create jobs such as feeding those who are starving, or providing medical attention for those who cannot get treatment, or improving the sanitation in areas in need of it? These are real jobs that make real differences!

So many countries (ours in particular) have become so self-absorbed, lazy, and ignorant that we would rather try to improve the quality of our lives (by inventing products that encourage even more laziness) and ignore the real problems that other people are experiencing.

It's time people open up their eyes to something more than what they know rather than opening up their mouths to suck on a lollipop they don't even have to spin.