Does anyone else out there find the premise to Kanso restaurant in Osaka a little disturbing? Read about it here in an article for the Japan Times.
Hailed as "A dining experience best described as 'late '90s chic homeless-shelter'", this basically empty lot that serves uncooked food out of the tin is apparently the best thing since Spam (which, by the way is served there). In the winter months, it's enclosed with plastic sheeting during the colder months and in the summer, the bare lot is open to the air. It's an homage to homeless people all over the world.
I'm guessing, though, that you won't find any real homeless people patronizing the place as the prices aren't cheap.
My question is, what kind of people go there? Are they wannabe homeless people? And, if they are wannabes, why aren't they out on the street trying to survive there?
Homelessness is not an issue to make light of. It's a big problem everywhere and here we find someone cashing in on the plight of the lives of the more unfortunate people to make a quick bunch of yen. Ah, the almighty yen (dollar, euro, pound, peso, kroner, etc).
Now, if they were donating the profits to help the truly unfortunate, then that would be saying something...
I don't know why, but this kind of thing just irritates me. All I seem to see is companies making huge amounts of money and encouraging people to buy beyond their means. I see celebrities that go out and buy ridiculously expensive cars, clothes and homes not thinking about the wasteful examples that they give their fans. Kids who want it all because say P.Diddy (or whatever he calls himself now) or Justin Timberlake or Paris Hilton or Britney Spears have it. Shouldn't these rich people be setting a better example for the rest of the world? Or is it just because you have more money that you shouldn't really have to take responsibility for the examples they are setting. I'm just tired of it.
Average people could work the rest of their lives and not have the things that most of these celebrities have. Yet, they work and buy beyond their means with credit. Why? So that they can impress their neighbours?
Which brings me back to the restaurant. Perhaps it's the next step of evolution that we glamourize the lives of people who have nothing. A counter-reaction to the whole more, more, more lifestyle. Sadly, I don't think it is. It's just a trend to make money.
Money. The thing that seems to create the most trouble in the world...
Hailed as "A dining experience best described as 'late '90s chic homeless-shelter'", this basically empty lot that serves uncooked food out of the tin is apparently the best thing since Spam (which, by the way is served there). In the winter months, it's enclosed with plastic sheeting during the colder months and in the summer, the bare lot is open to the air. It's an homage to homeless people all over the world.
I'm guessing, though, that you won't find any real homeless people patronizing the place as the prices aren't cheap.
My question is, what kind of people go there? Are they wannabe homeless people? And, if they are wannabes, why aren't they out on the street trying to survive there?
Homelessness is not an issue to make light of. It's a big problem everywhere and here we find someone cashing in on the plight of the lives of the more unfortunate people to make a quick bunch of yen. Ah, the almighty yen (dollar, euro, pound, peso, kroner, etc).
Now, if they were donating the profits to help the truly unfortunate, then that would be saying something...
I don't know why, but this kind of thing just irritates me. All I seem to see is companies making huge amounts of money and encouraging people to buy beyond their means. I see celebrities that go out and buy ridiculously expensive cars, clothes and homes not thinking about the wasteful examples that they give their fans. Kids who want it all because say P.Diddy (or whatever he calls himself now) or Justin Timberlake or Paris Hilton or Britney Spears have it. Shouldn't these rich people be setting a better example for the rest of the world? Or is it just because you have more money that you shouldn't really have to take responsibility for the examples they are setting. I'm just tired of it.
Average people could work the rest of their lives and not have the things that most of these celebrities have. Yet, they work and buy beyond their means with credit. Why? So that they can impress their neighbours?
Which brings me back to the restaurant. Perhaps it's the next step of evolution that we glamourize the lives of people who have nothing. A counter-reaction to the whole more, more, more lifestyle. Sadly, I don't think it is. It's just a trend to make money.
Money. The thing that seems to create the most trouble in the world...
1 Comments:
That very idea of it is pretty screwed up. People can be so insensitive.
Y'know one time I was driving by and saw a homeless man sitting on the sidewalk, vomiting. I felt so sad. It's bad enough they have to pick food and eat out of the garbage cans, but seeing them getting sick from it is another story. :-(
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