Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.
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Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.
There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living.
When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.
Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.