student loans are a hit!

[unsunghero]

Er, more recent news about it, still occurring

[Evia]

On the topic of education, I often wonder why we were never taught core life skills in school. Like managing finances, what a mortgage was and how to get one, applying for a job, filling out a resume ect. It's almost like the point isn't to actually educate people at all...which seems weird. We are sure taught how to obey and follow directions from our superiors pretty well though...that part stayed consistent throughout k-12.

[Landroval]

Hey Pal, you gotta license for that advice?

[druidbob]

Originally Posted by Evia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On the topic of education, I often wonder why we were never taught core life skills in school. Like managing finances, what a mortgage was and how to get one, applying for a job, filling out a resume ect. It's almost like the point isn't to actually educate people at all...which seems weird. We are sure taught how to obey and follow directions from our superiors pretty well though...that part stayed consistent throughout k-12.

That class did exist, it was called home economics. But then overtime the class turned into Housewife 101.

[Ooloo]

I took home-ec in 7th grade and it was like how to sew and make pies and stuff, alongside a class called technology which was how to make a shitty CD rack for fathers day or something. Then in highschool I had to take general economics and also a class called participation in government.

I don't really remember what I learned in either of them cause I was mostly just obsessed with my girlfriend liking me in highschool.

I definitely do not remember anything about tax returns, tax forms, what taxes really even are, mortgages, credit, loans, insurance or general finance. I did get a fairly good public education in math, science, history and music though which isn't nothing. Of course this was in the late 90s, can't speak to what it's like today cause I don't have kids.

[Landroval]

Originally Posted by Evia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On the topic of education, I often wonder why we were never taught core life skills in school. Like managing finances, what a mortgage was and how to get one, applying for a job, filling out a resume ect. It's almost like the point isn't to actually educate people at all...which seems weird. We are sure taught how to obey and follow directions from our superiors pretty well though...that part stayed consistent throughout k-12.

As a Large Language Model, I feel an ethical obligation to remind you it is important to remember that financial goals, methods, and accomplishments are a sensitive cultural matter, and that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to personal financial success, with even what that means varying from culture to culture.

With careful consideration and appreciation for the kaleidoscopic panorama of financial paths available to people across socioeconomic and political divides, we can make this world a much more inclusive and understanding financial landscape of peoples with diverse approaches to personal success.

https://youtu.be/ZRkrJzq_ieg

[Landroval]

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[Trexller]

Originally Posted by Evia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On the topic of education, I often wonder why we were never taught core life skills in school. Like managing finances, what a mortgage was and how to get one, applying for a job, filling out a resume ect. It's almost like the point isn't to actually educate people at all...which seems weird. We are sure taught how to obey and follow directions from our superiors pretty well though...that part stayed consistent throughout k-12.

the primary goal of public education was never to teach people how the world actually works, it was to create a rapid-spending consumer class, to scrape off the cream that rises to the top to manage the consumer class, and to leave the people who lag behind in the dirt to rot.

knowledge of the inner workings of macro-economics is not written, it is passed generationally.

[Ekco]

Originally Posted by Evia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On the topic of education, I often wonder why we were never taught core life skills in school. Like managing finances, what a mortgage was and how to get one, applying for a job, filling out a resume ect. It's almost like the point isn't to actually educate people at all...which seems weird. We are sure taught how to obey and follow directions from our superiors pretty well though...that part stayed consistent throughout k-12.

school was literally invented to prevent peasants from running away during battle. now say the pledge of allegiance, kids.

[unsunghero]

Speaking of guns, this is decent full coverage of the 2023 Austin, TX mass shooting by an incel/white supremacist

This includes the police bodycam footage of him being gunned down (offscreen). It was fortunate that a hero cop was already in the parking lot talking to someone else when the shooting started. AR’s are fuckin loud, man

Skip to 2+ min in for that

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=