This may come across as bad-tempered and gitty, but I think my point is valid -
If I could have my time all over again, I think I would follow the path of the TV 'money-saving expert' Martin Lewis and end up with his career. I don't know what special qualifications and experience he got in his earlier days, but it must be nice to make loads of money by 'advising' people who don't have any finances of their own. He must have a Hell of an agent, because he seems to have set himself up as The Ultimate Financial Guru and is now the go-to 'solving the cost of living crisis' guest on just about every media outlet in Britain.
And he doesn't even strike me as particularly impressive. His 'tips' seem to fall into three categories:
1. Things that should already be obvious to anyone with a modicum of intelligence.
2. Products and services that he has almost certainly been paid to endorse.
3. Ideas that won't work if lots of people follow his advice and do them, as by their nature they can only be beneficial if only a few people can take advantage of them.
I have nothing against him personally, I just don't like the fact that people are always looking outside their own intelligence and rational thinking for answers these days, instead of trusting their own abilities. Just because some reasonably-attractive middle-aged guy on telly is heralded as some kind of Economic Messiah, millions of slaves-to-their-mobiles Brits hang on his every word and jump on his every suggestion.
So I guess - now I've typed it out and thought about it a bit more - this is yet another Rory Complaint about the state of Modern Society, rather than being anything about Martin Lewis and his particular made-up market that he has cornered.
But still - I'm sick of hearing his voice, and I'm sick of hearing his name mentioned in every office conversation ("Well, Martin Lewis said..."), and I'm sick of the term 'expert' being used for someone who always sounds like he's peddling a glorified pyramid scheme.
If anyone fancies defending him, please feel free to do some research and tell me exactly how much money he has saved anyone with his cleverer-than-thou screen-grabbing appearances.
Rant over...
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