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Originally Posted by ilovetv
After reading Doodlegirl's post....
I have a different take on the economic and social stressors she mentioned in the first section.
I think television and extremely biased t.v. "news" networks (ALL of them) have created a lot of envy.
I think the "It's MINE" and "I NEED more" mentalities have grown out of seeing distorted pictures of what televised fictional characters or other real people have, that we don't.
And then there is what we've been led to believe we "need" and are "owed" thru television advertising and campaigning politicians on television.
Where, besides in a few radio programs that teach debt-free living, are we taught to be content with what we have without borrowing more money than what we can actually repay?? Credit card offers flow like drinking water!
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Life has taught me many things but foremost, in an economic sense, is to never belly up to the retail bar, discover for yourself the difference between want and need. If you learn that then you gain a certain immunity to the 'trumped' up reality that television wants to portray.