r/FluentInFinance • u/AdFar3727 • 5d ago

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Why are there so many people who couldn’t get a C- in high school personal finance in a sub that is called fluent in finance?

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u/unlock0 5d ago

Some are coming for help.

Some are unknowingly lucky.

Some are delusional.

Some are political shills.

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u/theunclescrooge 5d ago

So much political bs!! 😡

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u/Connect_Bat_1290 5d ago

The political people ruin everything. It doesn’t matter what side those they are on, they are then worst.

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u/BornAd7924 5d ago

How can you possibly discuss money or finance without talking politics? The entire financial conversation IS politics.

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u/VortexMagus 5d ago

I agree! The core of politics is the allocation and distribution of resources. It's central to any discussion of the economy.

A lot of people want to slam their heads into the sand and pretend that housing, taxes, interest rates, and trade are not affected at all by politics, but they're just wrong.

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u/BornAd7924 5d ago

People love to avoid the fact that even having the idea of a “free market”, getting paid money, spending money, the very existence of money are all political policies and choices. The opposite of that is true too, the idea of a barter based society, a utopian society where class and money don’t exist, all of it, EVERYTHING is politics. That’s what a society is.

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u/Lumpy_Taste3418 3d ago

That would be a really relevant point for fluentineconomics.

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u/Lumpy_Taste3418 3d ago

Tell me you know less than nothing about finance without saying I know less than nothing about finance.

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u/BornAd7924 3d ago edited 3d ago

Tell me you know nothing, while also telling me you know nothing at all….

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u/Lumpy_Taste3418 3d ago

tell me you nothing

You will need to become fluent in English, before you can talk about Finance in English.

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u/HowsTheBeef 5d ago

For real get finance out of our politics so we can talk about finance without worrying about if we are supporting fascism by doing so

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u/-Plantibodies- 5d ago

And there it is.

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u/Worth_Plastic5684 5d ago

And the same for math, and physics, and poetry. Every single discussion about every single subject from here on until the end of time must be a single, continuous screech about abortion, the border and Islam. Anything less is moral bankruptcy.