My oldest son is currently living this nightmare in the armed forces.
Don’t you see this every day? People making the same bad financial choices, the same bad life choices, the same bad moral choices.
Today, make different choices, better choices. Take a walk rather than watch the game on the tube. Read a book instead of spending hours web browsing. Play a board game with your kids and avoid the latest “reality” show. Volunteer for a charity near to your heart, drop by your neighbor and say, “Hello”, or donate to a worthy cause.
Do something right.

Rather close to urban legend, it seems: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-experiment-with-five-monkeys-a-ladder-a-banana-and-a-water-spray-condu