Christmas, a gigantic commercialised venture?

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Is Christmas just a gigantic commercialised venture, where billions of dollars in profit (or whatever the currency might be in monetary value) are being generated? Or is it a tradition which people who do celebrate it feel guilty about, if they cannot contribute to the festivities? If it is about celebrating the twenty fifth of December as Christ's "birthday", which no one can prove is the date, then why the hype and expense. Why buy presents for other people when it's not even their birthday. Why say Christmas is for children, when adults are spending so much on each other that it becomes a burden to so many, especially after the holidays are over; then some end up flat broke and very unhappy. Not to speak of the credit card debt that so many others are burdened with for the rest of the following year. And then the cycle starts all over again come next Christmas. My opinion: Its the biggest opportunity for which both industry and commerce are waitng, with broad smiles and very deep pockets. The advertisements on TV and radio are tuned and structured to say: "spend, spend, spend.' We don't care a damn where you end. Whether you live or die, as long as we get the biggest bite of the pie." So Christmas has been commercialised with all its glory and good wishes, for nothing but gain, with the least of pain, and profit, profit, profit thats worth all that pain-of the consumers , of course.