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Agreed here. It's kind of a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to finances. Everyone has to watch their own backs, because big banks are going to do what is most advantageous to them, even if that means screwing over other people.

There's a wealth of information out there for people to self-educate. Unfortunately, people just don't seem to know where to look. It's a travesty that we don't teach basic finances in high school to students about to graduate and go into the real world. We can sacrifice mandatory PE for a semester or a year to make space in the schedule for everyone to learn how credit, loans, and taxes work.




There's nothing special about credit, loans, and taxes. It's 7th grade reading comprehension and math.

The problem is not financial illiteracy it's general ignorance, illiteracy, and innumeracy.




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