For example, I am the treasurer for my regional timebank, and among my offered services are financial literacy, budgeting, and household bookkeeping. This won’t surprise you at all: it’s my most used offer (>100 hours used) and the number of people lacking these skills… it’s almost like this system is designed for a certain scope and scale of financial ignorance.
Well hey, you’re actually doing some effective harm mitigation and working to provide a framework of alternatives!
That is actually commendable, I tip my proverbial hat to that.
I used to work at a nonprofit serving the homeless and at risk of becoming homeless… after enough years inside a few Fortune 500 companies showed me the true extent of the horror.
Sadly I got badly maimed and am almost a year into full time at home physical therapy… progress is real, but slow.
Had to move to the middle of nowhere to find somewhere I could afford to rent off of just SSDI.
But anyway, yes, it is very much obviously intentional that we have a lack of financial literacy and at this point just general literacy:
The Republicans have been doing everything they can for my entire lifetime thus far to destroy public education, and it is working.
Well hey, you’re actually doing some effective harm mitigation and working to provide a framework of alternatives!
That is actually commendable, I tip my proverbial hat to that.
I used to work at a nonprofit serving the homeless and at risk of becoming homeless… after enough years inside a few Fortune 500 companies showed me the true extent of the horror.
Sadly I got badly maimed and am almost a year into full time at home physical therapy… progress is real, but slow.
Had to move to the middle of nowhere to find somewhere I could afford to rent off of just SSDI.
But anyway, yes, it is very much obviously intentional that we have a lack of financial literacy and at this point just general literacy:
The Republicans have been doing everything they can for my entire lifetime thus far to destroy public education, and it is working.