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Re:No one reads the terms of service. Lawmakers want to fix ... by kube-system on Sunday December 11, 2022 @09:55PM (#33950324)
Anyone who says what "US law" is, regarding property rental contracts, is either generalizing or doesn't know what they're talking about. Landlord/tenant law is one thing that varies quite a bit from state to state and it is mostly out of scope of federal law.

And furthermore, it's a common misconception that something is 'legal' to stipulate just because they've seen it in their contracts before. People put unenforceable crap in contracts all the time because 9/10 people will just believe it's enforceable and go along with it.

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Re:No one reads the terms of service. Lawmakers want to fix ... by msla on Monday December 12, 2022 @04:03AM (#33952516)
I am an American, I went to American public high school, and not one in a particularly rich town. (So there, people who think American schools are all junk.) I did, however, get a class in basic business law, including contracts, which I think should be mandatory for all high school students, and it would cover precisely this kind of thing.
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Re:No one reads the terms of service. Lawmakers want to fix ... by toyg on Monday December 12, 2022 @05:49AM (#33953265)
> I think should be mandatory for all high school students

Notice how anything related to wealth management (contracts, financial concepts and practices, etc) is rarely (if ever) included in compulsory schooling.

This is by design.

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Re:No one reads the terms of service. Lawmakers want to fix ... by kube-system on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:25PM (#33958192)
36 states require a civics course, which typically include personal finance topics. It was covered when I was in school decades ago.

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/data-most-states-re...

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Re:No one reads the terms of service. Lawmakers want to fix ... by msla on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:25AM (#33955606)
Yes: People think school should be more about learning the "traditional" subjects and get angry when schools deviate.
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Re:No one reads the terms of service. Lawmakers want to fix ... by toyg on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:39AM (#33955810)
No, that's because the ruling classes can integrate that knowledge in their own way later on, whereas others cannot. This coupled very well with the original aristocratic pretension that "material" subjects should be considered inferior.

So we ended up with Western education systems that produce intellectuals who conceptually despise wealth management, ensuring education remains thoroughly detached from the actual levers of power. That suits rulers just fine.

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Re:No one reads the terms of service. Lawmakers want to fix ... by msla on Monday December 12, 2022 @02:48PM (#33959237)
You have a nice little castle of theory built on air.
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