Should Kids Really Learn About Getting Rich?
If we do get stuck thinking kids can’t handle money or budgeting, it’s often for three reasons: We start teaching them too late. We try teaching too much at once. We try teaching lessons that aren’t relevant to our kids’ lives. It’s important to flip these roadblocks: Start early. Go slowly. Stay within our kids’ reality.
Jesse Mecham • You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want
There may be things that cultural creators and media figures like myself might be able to do to help this “expectations reset” along. Perhaps we should emphasize grit and struggle instead of talking so much about wealth and personal fulfillment.
Noah Smith • The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis
Do we want to follow the glittering allure of money and
The School of Life • How to Find Fulfilling Work (The School of Life)
balance is your priority in your youth, then you need to accept that, unless you are a genius, you may not reach the upper rungs of economic security.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Happiness
Seeking wealth is not always in fashion. In a society correctly concerned about the acceleration of income inequality, wealth looks like the unfair allocation of a rigged system.