Wow, just wow. So you think financial skills are really more important than history and social studies in what is supposed to be a participatory, democratic society?! No wonder we have a tea party and our country in the sorry state it's in... There's much more to people than bank accounts. OK, learn some financial…
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I completely disagree with you and this is exactly why people enter college and the workforce completely unaware of how to make sound financial decisions. History and social studies provides much less value than real world financial skills.
Actually, I was ill with a chronic kidney condition. It was a legitimate question.
Someone slept through 20th century history, eh?
Also, how did people die getting Saturday and Sunday off? I was under the impression that it's been like that for a few hundred years.
You're a moron. "Big Government??" People fought and died for Social Security, pensions, and any other basic right we still 'enjoy' in this country (albeit on a very weak and limited basis compared to many other more advanced, decent, humane societies). Idiots like you with your "big gubmint" and "because freedom"…
I'd rather see kids first have pencils, chalk, textbooks, computers, etc.; and to learn culturally appropriate history, social studies, critical thinking, and to have their interests in science and nature piqued. To learn the power of social cooperation and de-program them a little from rampant American individualism…
PAY THEM ENOUGH TO EVEN THINK ABOUT SAVING!
Yep. Because the ONLY reason why people under 30 (or 40 or 50...) aren't saving is because we just have too much stuff. Granted, consumer culture is fucked, but, you know the repression of the labor movement, wages not keeping up with productivity (or inflation), offshoring and outsourcing, the shift to precarious,…
Financial literacy needs to be in the classrooms from an early age. Kids need to be taught about the value of money, compound interest and the benefits of investing.
How do you tell those kids under 30 who want they iToys that they have the best opportunity to invest in their retirement? Here I am, stashing away 20% of my pre-tax income into a 401(k), and even I don't believe I will have have enough to retire on.
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One thing I'd like to add is that being around someone you know has depression is uncomfortable. I've been on both sides of it. You can feel helpless, even put off or scared by the intense emotions or negativity. But don't run away from it, because that makes someone who already feels like they're alone even more so.
As someone who's never had to go through depression before, the first half of this is more important than it seems: it's nearly impossible to help someone until you really understand what's happening. I've had multiple friends go through it and I was a horrible friend about it because I really didn't get how it works.
Our taxes subsidize many useful public projects, among them schools, roads, a standing army, ambulance service and fire departments, and more. Why not health care? Why begrudge your fellow citizens an opportunity to maintain wellness or to regain health?
Is there a calculator to show what a selfish ass you are?
Does noticing that the word in the headline should be "Minutiae" count?
Help me understand - those pictures all seem to show mostly grown-ass men...
"Now let's go to Joe from Manhattan, Joe you're on the FAN"
Yes, we're idiots. We have this long standing delusion that at any point, even the poorest person has plenty of opportunities to eventually become wealthy, and because of that delusional "potential" dream, people will regularly vote against their self interest in the slim hopes that one day, somehow, they can become…