>>One of my favorite things to knock on about is how we live in a capitalist society but our compulsory education doesn't ever address basic finance & economics

>>One of my favorite things to knock on about is how we live in a capitalist society but our compulsory education doesn't ever address basic finance & economics. That is largely high school math + common sense. They actually do teach a lot of life skills at school. One just needs to pay attention. The true reason why people take personal finance later in life is because they burn their hands, and learn the lessons the hard way through some failure.