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> Consumers need to be more responsible and skeptical about the choices advertisers want them to make. Don't have so many kids, stay healthy first and foremost
by aesclepius 8y ago
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Consumers need to be more responsible and skeptical about the choices advertisers want them to make. Don't have so many kids, stay healthy first and foremost, don't develop bad spending habits, do develop good savings habits, and use your job as a vessel to forward your career, and not your paycheck.
You're speaking from a position of privilege in time, money and access. Many people start out life with involuntary handicaps, physical ailments and hell, just shitty luck. It's very easy to criticize people who made one or two bad decisions (or had bad things happen) early on and have to deal with it.
- scarface74 8y agoI've seen people in the gym three or four times a week that couldn't walk and did upper body exercise. I've seen elderly people with arthritis do water aerobics, my own grandfather with diabetes had his leg amputated and was active until in the field taking care of his cows until he passed. Heck, I have cerebral palsy (mostly affects my left hand and to a lesser extent my left foot) but I was a part time fitness instructor for 12 years, ran 5K - 15Ks. and even now I work out 5 - 8 hours a week. In other words do what you can with in your limits. If you have kids that can walk, take them walking with you. Make them part of your activity.
- jrq 8y agoI'm speaking from three years of homelessness after being independent and nearly homeless at 17 and recovering from several years of alcohol abuse. Don't assume, because it only confirms that you don't know what you're talking about. Even through all of that, I found time to exercise. Even when I was a drunk, hell I still jogged now and then. I'm not saying bad things don't happen, I'm saying having three jobs and eight kids isn't "a bad thing happened"