this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
815 points (99.8% liked)

memes

19967 readers
3924 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads/AI SlopNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
815
Klarna for rent (media.piefed.zip)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by inari@piefed.zip to c/memes@lemmy.world
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

For example, I am the treasurer for my regional timebank, and among my offered services are financial literacy, budgeting, and household bookkeeping. This won't surprise you at all: it's my most used offer (>100 hours used) and the number of people lacking these skills... it's almost like this system is designed for a certain scope and scale of financial ignorance.

Well hey, you're actually doing some effective harm mitigation and working to provide a framework of alternatives!

That is actually commendable, I tip my proverbial hat to that.

I used to work at a nonprofit serving the homeless and at risk of becoming homeless... after enough years inside a few Fortune 500 companies showed me the true extent of the horror.

Sadly I got badly maimed and am almost a year into full time at home physical therapy... progress is real, but slow.

Had to move to the middle of nowhere to find somewhere I could afford to rent off of just SSDI.

But anyway, yes, it is very much obviously intentional that we have a lack of financial literacy and at this point just general literacy:

The Republicans have been doing everything they can for my entire lifetime thus far to destroy public education, and it is working.