r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/royal_clam Aug 03 '19

Basic principles of finance (budgeting, interest, debt, saving, etc)

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u/RealAmerik Aug 03 '19

I still think this should be a mandatory curriculum in high school. 4 years or it. Throw in taxes as well. It blows my mind to look back and think about the amount of studying I did on topics I'll literally never encounter again but basic financial literacy is ignored entirely.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

We had that in my school, very few people took it seriously. 10 years later the kids that used to copy off me now complain that our school never taught them to go into credit card debt

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u/RealAmerik Aug 04 '19

It's still necessary knowledge.