• @AttackBunny
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      -21 year ago

      Or at least teach teenagers how it works. Interest too. Oh, and while we’re at it, taxes.

      • @AllonzeeLV
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        Yes, but even more important, start teaching the social contract again, because the majority of Americans seem to take joy in the struggling and suffering of their own neighbors.

        Abraham Lincoln said “a house divided cannot stand,” and we got Americans scamming other Americans, laughing at them for it, and calling it rational self-interest instead of sociopathic greed.

        • Montagge
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          21 year ago

          Even more better actually fight for affordable education

          • Flying Squid
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            11 year ago

            Because society is not a monolithic hive mind and there are plenty of people who will be good to you if you’re good to them.

        • WookieMunster
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          Fuck the social contract. It’s only the have-nots that are encouraged to follow it, meanwhile the others do whatever they want, at the expense of the poor.

      • @reddig33
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        71 year ago

        Can’t believe you’re being downvoted for encouraging financial literacy.

        • @[email protected]
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          It doesn’t matter. I was taught all that, it meant nothing at the time. I was quizzed on a 1040-ez, which doesn’t exist anymore. Also about half the graduates could understand it in the first place, reading comprehension and mathematical literacy are shockingly low.

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          Because it isn’t relevant. It is lecturing people on the statistics of how dangerous driving it is and then sticking their place of employment in an area where car is the only way to get to it. Just because you know how badly you are screwed doesn’t make you unscrewed. Also the tone implies victim blaming which fuck that noise.

          • @AttackBunny
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            31 year ago

            JFC you REALLY have a victim hood complex don’t you? Seriously, calm down.