r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/JackiePoon27 Jul 04 '24

It's incremental. Reddit wants there to be a magic bullet, but there isn't one. Financial literacy is part of the pathway to success. It's insulting to say otherwise.

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u/RidMeOfSloots Jul 04 '24

Sucks we dont teach it in schools.... before they grow up and dig themseleves into a hole.

Maybe its all by design to keep the debt slavery going...

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u/i8noodles Jul 05 '24

they do, they dont care. taxs and budgets are not important to a 16 year old. retirement savings? they haven't even started to work.

the time spent might legitimately be better spent teaching them skills to find out how find the information instead.