@johnfenjackson@... I agree with you. All of a sudden now schools are teaching personal finance and I.T. ?!
Why they never taught it before was beyond me. The amount of fools that I went to school with or hear about that are in debt trouble [school, credit cards] or in some other financial mess because they don't READ some of all of the fine print of any documents is there fault.
My beef is, when these people you buy or use these products, services, and equipment, you need to understand how they work and why they work. Don't buy it if you don't have the money or if you don't understand the who, what, where, when, why, and how.
Schools need to teach the basics of everything a human being would encounter during there lifetime. If you decide to take up the advanced stuff, then go ahead; but when I ask you to perform a 3 way call and you say " I don't know how to do it" or open your web browser to the foreground and open a new tab, and you state "I don't know what that is" then I have lost faith in you already.
Age is nothing but a number, because these security risks and general stupidity affect every one that don't understand and how to handle the situation when it occurs.
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