You mention that the education system churns out obedient robots, I absolutely agree that there are huge gaps in the education system regarding time management, investing, money management and so on - but the system we grow up in is totally fueled this way to keep us dumb and under foot. Talk about debt - the only way that you can get a home mortgage these days is if you have a good "credit record" repeating exactly what you said above - obedient robots. If you have never had a credit card and pay cash for most things, you are then considered a bad apple when in actual fact, you're probably far more economically sound than the vast majority.

I take Hive seriously enough. I enjoy writing and I write nonsense sometimes, but that's ok, sometimes life is full of nonsense, just look all around. I could write loads of posts on very controversial subjects but I know that I would ruffle a lot of feathers. It takes time to find your feet here and most people these days have the attention span of an aphid, so I'm not entirely surprised that so many join and leave. It's not entirely the ecosystem's fault, but what society has been training people to be. All consuming obedient idiots for the most part.