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Originally Posted by 2020BRZtS
The problem in the US is that the graduates of the public education system don't learn simple life skills of balancing a checkbook and living with a budget. When these same graduates go into the world on their own they are forced to rely on the advice of professionals... whose only motivation is to part them from their money.
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Actually this is not true. I went to 12 years of public school in NY and there were budgeting lessons in middle school "home and career skills" classes. Now, that's a good 5-7 years before you graduate, but the principles don't really change. I learned it at least.