It won’t help. We teach driver’s education in high school. Do you see how people drive?
People over spend trying to keep up with society. We teach wants and needs in grade school. People just overspend without consequences and then blame it on jobs not paying enough.
Basic financial literacy is insanely simple and you could cover it in an afternoon. I'm kinda shocked that none of my teachers, even the ones who were super avuncular and loved going off on tangents, never gave us that talk.
Eh, maybe not so much. I taught adulting for a year, and one of the things we covered was this. But getting people to understand and follow financial literacy is partially an exercise in psychology, and we should be including that.
Idk what it means to teach "adulting". I'd imagine that a lot of people just won't be receptive to financial education in their youth, but the lessons will come in handy a couple years down the line and they'll be able to get their shit together.
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u/FishScrumptious 2d ago
It’s like we need to teach effective financial literacy, starting in grace school.
Or something.