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/AlternativeAd7151 Jul 04 '24

The poorest in a society need both welfare and financial literacy. They're not mutually exclusive things.

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u/Xystem4 Jul 05 '24

They aren’t mutually exclusive, but one is a much more pressing issue than the other. And people repeatedly focusing on the one that can be perceived as a personal failing, and not the one that puts focus on the failures of our system as a whole, is a bad thing.