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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I like where you're looking, Ustwo. I think you're dead on that our education system is designed to feed labor into the workforce, not to empower individuals to become financially independant (or even financially solvent).
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Since most of the people perform some sort of labor and school is supposed to prepare you for working one day isn't that the goal of school?
It would be important to teach kids sound financial advice but most likely it will go in one ear and out the other. At that age most aren't ready to think long term like that.
To me, financially independent doesn't mean you don't need to work, just that you have a nice chunk of money set aside. However, it is about a obtaining a certain amount of wealth. Wealth works on a pyramid scale and it would seem wastefull to devote large resources towards achieving a goal that less than 5% will get to.