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A comment on Marketers’ Fixation on the Millennial Generation. Parent comment

Re:Marketers’ Fixation on the Millennial Generation by reagency on Sunday June 21, 2015 @11:17PM (#9755974)
How is that debatable? We teach coins and bills to 8 yr olds, but for some pseudoiberal-arts-intellectual reason we don't teach propaganda and compounding interest to hif schoolers. (I actually learned propaganda in a school-funded after school academic "sports" club, but my case was rare)
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Re:Marketers’ Fixation on the Millennial Generation by morgante on Sunday June 21, 2015 @11:31PM (#9756003)
I don't think we should be teaching finance any more than we should be teaching cooking. It's mainly a life survival skill, not an academic subject, and thus should be the responsibility of parents.
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Re:Marketers’ Fixation on the Millennial Generation by opcvx on Monday June 22, 2015 @01:48AM (#9756402)
We do teach cooking in schools. At least in Europe. See my parent post, that class was mandatory.

There are plenty of classes that teach non-academic subjects, finance should be one of them, since we life in an money centered society.

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Re:Marketers’ Fixation on the Millennial Generation by morgante on Monday June 22, 2015 @02:19AM (#9756511)
> We do teach cooking in schools. At least in Europe. See my parent post, that class was mandatory.

I know we do. We shouldn't. "Home economics" is the biggest waste of time I had to endure in my entire education.

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