Today people value many different things. What people value too much today is
             It has been said that money is the root of all evil, and that seems to be true more and more
             so each year. Some money is necessary to live, and to live comfortably making $100,000
             a year, there is no one that needs more money than that to live. Too many people place
             too much value on money. People go to work for 8 hours a day, come home, and have to
             feed their families and pay bills, and they always complain about the lack of money. This
             is true to some extent, but it is not necessarly what they make that is hurting them, it is
             what they are spending. People in general make decent money but they blow it all on
             fancy cars, or eating out, or not investing properly. If they valued saving money, or didn't
             value what extra comes with money, people would be in a better place both mentally and
             Every advertisement and every media presentation has people in America thinking
             they are not good enough. They need to look better, need to buy better clothes, they need
             to eat at a nicer restaurant, they need to make more money, and spend it on what is being
             advertised. The media plays a role much too large in our everyday life. They show the
             extreme sides of life, and very little in between. Everyone seems to get what they want,
             and that takes money. Take for example all the ciggeratte advertisements. Something as
             simple as a ciggeratte advertisement says a lot about ourselves. We value looking good,
             feeling good, all the time. That is not what life is about, life is about working hard and
             achieving, even if it is for personal gain. Once we achieve something, then we should
             save it, not waste it, but the media and advertisements encourage us to do just the
             Money isn't always the most important thing in life. There are other things more
             important, like personal health and general welfare. Sometimes people will do dangerous
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