What was once a good thread has been kind of mashed into a big mess.
Just to recap, we want to make life in the ‘burbs more expensive by launching taxes and increasing tolls to access the core but then meanwhile at the same time we need to be building more housing (where people won’t buy them because now they’re too expensive) and lastly as long as we remember that it’s all the other peoples fault than all is well?
There are shades of truth to all sides of this debt debate. People in general do spend money like complete idiots, let’s just be honest about that one. And guess who spends money like idiots? Men, women, old people, young people, middle aged people, all ethnicities, all genders and all people. Literally every demographic has idiots with spending problems.
So, financial literacy should be a key core course or at the very least a math module required in high school. And I’m not talking that BS Calm course where you took a quiz and then it told you your career should be a florist or whatever. A real actual serious course required for graduation that teaches you such things as:
- money is real
- debt is real
- borrowing more now means you have to pay it back later (hint- it’s not free)
- as SNL puts it, don’t buy #### you don’t need
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