How would you feel about having a mandatory class in high school that teaches about budgeting, handling or avoiding debt, making good investments, signing important documents, job interviews, and other important adult life skills?

Teachers need to make it clear why this all matters:

Hey kids! You like life right now? Like having friends, being accepted, parents who buy you shit? Don't like taking shit from people?

Then you'll love to learn about budgeting, investing, debt, and legalese!

But teacher, why would I want to learn about all this lame, boring shit?

Because one day, kids, you will leave your parents and they will die and stop buying you shit. You and your friends will move away to find jobs to pay for the bills you all must now pay, or else be evicted to the streets by your landlord doesn't give a shit about your problems. You'll get uglier and fatter as you spend your time working and your money on quick, cheap food. You'll need a car, and some greasy salesman who doesn't give a fuck about you is going to trick you into signing your life away for a busted lemon, and you'll wonder on the side of the highway with your broken down junker how you got suckered into shoveling away your emergency savings for some bullshit warranty that you were denied when you tried to cash it in. You won't own your life anymore, but you will present your ass to your boss, your landlord, your lenders, not to mention salesmen, lawyers, tax collectors, insurance agents, and cops who are smarter than you and in just as much a position as you to not be everyone else's bitch like you turned out to be, because you were too proud to learn shit like that tiny kid with glasses you made fun of, who is now laughing at you from the BMW he bought with the bed of cash he now sleeps on from his job as a corporate accountant.

The world is out to get you and your money. And if you don't know what you're doing, it will turn you into its slave.

This class will teach you how to be a master and not a slave.

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