Exactly! There's definitely a class component to it. I considered bringing that up in my previous post. Not everyone can afford a costume and free candy shouldn't be just for the kids whose families could afford to buy candy anyway. It's definitely not as simple as "they're too lazy to buy a costume." Some people flat out can't afford it.

Take my costume for example! I could have paid about $60 for a licensed, pre-assembled Harley Quinn costume from a Halloween store. But I said "fuck that, those look cheap and dumb anyway" and decided to assemble my own. Even considering that I got as many pieces from Goodwill as I could, and the rest involved some kind of discount/sale or were otherwise dirt cheap ($2 facepaint, $2 mask, $1 black lipstick, $2 belt, etc.)... I'm pretty sure I paid more than $60 total. And I saw other Harley Quinns out - I was not the best looking one. I tried to go cheap, still paid more, and did have the nicest costume ever seen.