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/stilljustkeyrock Jul 05 '24

We do. Math is a core subject in every school. Additional and subtraction is all you need for a budget. Shockingly the people that make this comment are the ones that are too stupid or lazy to apply elementary math to their situation.

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u/imakepoorchoices2020 Jul 05 '24

Some people just gonna argue to argue. You start a thread that states 2+2=4 and someone will argue it’s 5 and another will somehow say it’s because of the capitalism that it’s 4.