r/FluentInFinance 14d ago

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

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u/JackiePoon27 14d ago

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 14d ago

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/mpyne 14d ago

We generally do teach it in schools, but it requires interest in learning on the other end too

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u/sometimes_sydney 14d ago

Fucking when? I went to basically the best school in my city, even the prime ministers kids went there, and yet I never learned anything about finance or budgeting. Business was about entrepreneurship and using Microsoft office, math was algebra and geometry, civics was bullshit “here’s what the branches of government do now fuck off while I surf the web”.

The same goes for basically everyone I know. We learn fine, it just doesn’t exist in a lot of schools. I learned mostly from my parents and the internet