Swag

I work on a lot of benefits. I get to see the rich and super rich of Los Angeles up close. They come to where I work and sit thru entertainment like Beyonce or Robin Williams and choke down hotel Chicken Cordon Bleu. And after the benefits for cancer or some other thing, they are given a gift bag. This gift bag has swag from DVDs to jewelry to discount cards. Lots of free stuff. Depends on the benefit.

But what irks me is the mega rich people can afford to buy all this stuff. They have expendible money like no one else on the planet. They of all people can buy these trinkets. Who doesn't get a gift bag? Me. The crew who has been busting butt all day to bring this entertainment and chicken for their delight. Now, some benefits do give us bags. Sometimes I find a bag under a table that was left behind.

Now the cost of the chicken and entertainment is steep. The price may be $500- 2000 a plate. It is for charity or some cause. However, do the people that come to these things really need the swag bags? How much does it cost the charity to hand out these things to the people attending? Couldn't the money be better spent curing cancer?

And the rich people are crazy for the free stuff. So, become rich and you get things for free... Hmmmm... that doesn't make sense to me.