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Originally Posted by jumpy
Says it all for just about everyone who I know.
Question: Why do many people spend much of their earnings on booze on a weekend?
It's not because of alcoholism, or 'binge drinking culture'... it's because a large percentage of our working population spends long hours in menial jobs, working for bosses who'd fire them as soon as look at them. They have no real chance to put their earnings by for the future or a rainy day, so they go out and enjoy what little of their lives that they can, down the pub with their mates, before they have to go back to work for the next 40-60 hours a week until they're too old to work anymore.
If that's not reason enough to drink a lot, and fight when the opportunity presents itself, I don't know what is.
It's a social and economic issue, like most of britains problems.
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Good post and one I echo in the main but with one caveat...binge drinking in towns and city centres is in the main carried out by teens and young people yet the number of unemployed young people is at an unprecedented level.