While I've heard this repeated my whole life ("it's called Black Friday because that's when we're finally in the black"), but I just have a really hard time accepting that the arch capitalists who run this country really operate the whole thing on a loss for 11 months and make all their profit in December? They rip us off every fucking day; there's no way they start making real money in December.

Or maybe because the fiscal year rolls in Sept or idk June, so they're showing profit after 3-6 months, which is maybe feasible