The first thing I do in the morning when I wake up to get ready for work is turn on the news and watch/listen to it while I make coffee and breakfast. I like to keep myself informed of recent events. And yet I've found that most of my peers simply don't watch or care about the news at all.
The biggest problem here is that there is very little in the way of decent news. Of the multitude of news programs on in a day, I find only about four of them worthwhile. The same goes for newspapers.
Most of what you find on local news stations and in local papers is just crap: gossip, vanity news, etc.
People are right to point out that these stories have no relevance to them whatsoever.
I've also observed financial irresponsibility in most of my peers. It's like watching a train wreck happening in slow motion but there is nothing I can do about it. For example, my boyfriend and I recently took his sister and her boyfriend out to dinner. I happen to know that the boyfriend recently lost his car because he couldn't afford the payments. He's currently sleeping at my boyfriend's sister's parents' living room couch. While we were eating, he bragged that he's been saving up to buy some fancy belt from Italy. He showed me on the phone and the price tag was $3600. I didn't even know fashion belts could cost that much
I've also seen someone of my age blow through $70k she inherited in a year. She eventually got kicked out of her apartment and had to move back to her mother's place. Her boyfriend left to go to Colorado to find work. He spent his entire first paycheck buying weed and posted it on facebook to brag.
Why do you think that is?
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