this is actually not my biggest gripe with the US education curriculum. there is a bigger problem. the amount of instruction on communism is very small, right? well the amount of instruction on personal finance is even smaller. it's almost nothing.

the only thing I can recall that was compulsory for all students was a "baby project" from health class. you're supposed to simulate a budget in case you get your teenage girlfriend pregnant and you decide not to have an abortion. the entire purpose of the project is to make you believe that having a baby and being a parent will put you in extreme poverty and you will be miserable for the rest of your life. it's just antinatalist propaganda. it doesn't actually teach you about budgeting.

we now have an entire generation of young people who don't know why they're not supposed to order door dash all the time or borrow money to study gluten free nonbinary basket weaving. when they flunk out of college or somehow end up with their useless degree, they get stuck working at the grocery store. then they start praying to santa for free money because they are fucking broke and they NEVER have a baby. this alone ends up creating more socialism in real life than the university professors who praise it.