"Can you believe that Amy Winehouse only had three million dollars to her name when she passed?"

This was a statement made by a disc jockey on a rhythm and blues radio station. I get where the DJ was coming from, in regards to how Amy squandered her wealth due to her disease. However what about the millions of teenagers listening to that show and subsequently the DJ's statement.

Only three million dollars? So what does that mean? One has to wonder, if the DJ herself is a millionaire? Just how much does the DJ have to her name?

The point is that pretentious statements like these lead young people who don't know any better to experience feelings of inadequacy. Feelings of inadequacy resulting from living in a consumerist society is the number one reason why teens today are angrier than generations past. (This is simply my opinion.)

Well over ninety-nine percent of them are not millionaires and neither are their parents. Yet a vast majority of them are consistently exposed to propaganda courtesy of mass media and advertisers that states they should be worth so much and should have certain high value items. Those of you who follow this blog will remember this post about a high school-er who forced her mother to buy her a car at gun point, because she had earned good grades.