Not teaching the public about taxes, economics, proper money handling, credit, etc makes sense when you remember who controls public education.
Your debit card pays for things with past hours of your life, and your credit card pays with future hours of your life.
Time is the ultimate currency. We take time from people (jail) if they do bad things and give them the gift of personal time at work (like vacation)
50 Cent was born in 1975. If you account for inflation. He is now 2 Dollar and 34 Cent.
If Monopoly has taught us anything it’s that the real winner of the game is always The Bank.
The Average life expectancy is 78 years, while the retirement age is 67. We work for 50 years to be free for 11
A penny saved is actually more valuable than a penny earned because you don’t pay taxes on it.
People in poverty can have decision fatigue from making decisions over every penny, which makes them worse at decisions. Being poor can make you poor at being poor.
If we spent “hours worked” instead of money we’d save more.
We can we justify multiple $20 over the span of a few weeks but can’t justify a $120 purchase in the moment
Being rich is less about the extra stuff you get to do than the normal stuff you never worry about.
Bingo!!!
If college prices continue to rise, college students may go from being considered intelligent to fools, as the ‘investment in their future’ may cost them much more than it makes.
Anytime someone is really desperate for money, they only need it so they can give it to someone else
Taking drugs and thinking you’re happy is like taking a loan and thinking you’ve got money.
It’s hard to take control of your life when you lack money.
Give a man a gun and he’ll rob the bank. Give a man a bank and he’ll rob the world.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity…but it’s also the definition of practice.
If time is money, hours, minutes and seconds would be its currency.