Being encouraged to invest is nice but having the ability to is a massive luxury.

I knew I wanted to save a lot for my future and retirement since I was in high school. I didn’t gain any reasonable ability to do so until much later.

A much better life skill in my opinion would be to teach about budgeting, how to cook economical meals, how to avoid debt traps and lifestyle inflation.

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yaky 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

HN is a very specific and privileged demographic, very far from an average citizen. (of the US at least)

	▲	encrypted_bird 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not the OC, but yeah I've noticed this myself actually. I read HN because I love science and technology, but I don't work in either area. I work at a dead-end job as a cashier and barely make ends meet. Some of the people on here are exceedingly privileged and really don't realize it.

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ericyd 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm always bummed when I comment on HN and then scroll down and find another comment which said it better.