new Bujold interview
... is up here.
http://www.holdfastmagazine.com/featu...
Done by e-mail, worked up by the interviewer into this article. Fairly painless method, as interviews go.
Ta, L.
http://www.holdfastmagazine.com/featu...
Done by e-mail, worked up by the interviewer into this article. Fairly painless method, as interviews go.
Ta, L.
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Karl wrote: "[[[ To a huge extent, technology creates culture, enlarging the ambit of the possible. As tech and wealth penetrate both across Barrayar’s inhospitable geography, and down through its social class..."Well, lots of people now are using Quicken, and similar personal programs.
Access is not enough. To get started, one needs someone to show one how (I had a money-wise friend). Then one needs follow-through. Yearly (and, if one is self-employed, quarterly) taxes do something to keep me motivated. Also, those nice colored graphs are viscerally rewarding...
But in general, young people and especially young women are _not_ taught how to manage money, nor to be conscious of it as their personal ecological basis. Or, at best, they learn a nickle-and-dime frugality without learning enough about dollars. This is very disempowering.
Ta, L.
Yes, to this. I remember vaguely having one consumer economics course in high school for a 1/3 of a year? Not enough. They should have something as soon as kids are employable, and teach about savings and compound interest. Even two weeks once a year would be better than what my daughter got. She's at the beginning of her earning cycle, and I told her to save 10 percent, unless there's dire, life-threatening emergencies. But other than that, neither she (nor I) know nearly enough about managing money.
Vaguely remember? Vaguely going through the motions of class? (-: Now I'm not sure which is more apt. Probably both. Wish I had a Tsipis in my life.
What I got at school was the math and the theory part. I got the practical applications part at home from my parents. (lucky, lucky me)
Yeah, I wish I could be a better role model for economic habits, rather than a mild warning. I'm not even horrible enough to scare her into reading financial planning books. Oh well, if I start now, maybe I can be a paragon or a horrible cautionary tale for my grandchildren. Note: Ekaterin runs into a lot of these problems, and pulls herself out through application (and a few books and a Tsipis). (-: Yay, Ekaterin!
So why doesn't everyone inform and share the information with others? Why do we need centralized knowledge control called school?Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23b...
That is a very interesting statement. Consider it in the real world in relation the knowledge people have to apply it.
Accounting was among the first things big organizations used computers for in the 50s. But double-entry accounting is 700 years old. So why isn't accounting taught to everyone now so they can use these computers that are more powerful than 1980s mainframes?
Would we have had the housing bubble and Ninja loans if everyone in high school had been taught accounting since 1990?
The uterine replicator would not require everyone to know much about it, only that it was available. These cheap computers are a decentralized technology and what gets done with them depends on what people know.