Poor change

Star-kids. That is the name of the ‘hand over your coins’ charity on Jetstar airlines.

The promo justifies the charity on the basis that the money will go towards ‘change’ for kids in some of the world’s ‘poorest’ communities.

By ‘change’ I wonder if they mean the coins. Do they just hand ’em over? We know they don’t.

No, ‘change’ means that the kids need to be more like us in the West. Consumers.

So we spend the charity money on professionals who train them how to acquire and exhaust wealth. ‘Poor’ isn’t  how little wealth you have, it’s how little you spend.

It’s not really charity; it’s more missionary. Money is our religion and we just need new customers.

Poor change for stark ids.