On the other hand, I had a social studies teacher giving a… finance? (is that a class in high school? I know it wasn't a government course) class in which he explained that credit cards were the best means of paying for something. But he was big on the "why," which, in his class was "float." Cash was the stupidest way to pay for anything because the money was gone immediately. Checks were only slightly less evil. But if you could just pay with a credit card you could float that money out there and spend more than you had. Bonus if you could pay off one credit card with another, but for reasons he did not explain "that only works so far."
The man showed us his wallet full of credit cards, but I think (and hope) that we were all old enough to understand what was going on and simply feel a little bad for him. The moral of the anecdote, though, is that sometimes the code doesn't run the way you planned it to, and good ideas run through the wrong systems result in strange errors.
My father teaches so long as he stubbornly refuses to retire, and as of 5 years ago was still required to teach about floppy disks. He is in a non-tech field. I'm a product of my experiences, but I skeptically and open-mindedly remain on the 'damn gubmint' side for now.
The man showed us his wallet full of credit cards, but I think (and hope) that we were all old enough to understand what was going on and simply feel a little bad for him. The moral of the anecdote, though, is that sometimes the code doesn't run the way you planned it to, and good ideas run through the wrong systems result in strange errors.
My father teaches so long as he stubbornly refuses to retire, and as of 5 years ago was still required to teach about floppy disks. He is in a non-tech field. I'm a product of my experiences, but I skeptically and open-mindedly remain on the 'damn gubmint' side for now.