What the ‘McDonald’s Career Track’ Means for Our Collective Financial Future

Let me start out by saying that I have lots of respect for McDonalds and their embrace of the moniker that they are America’s best first job. This has nothing to do with them but everything to do with having fair and equitable access to information.

I recently read article about the decline of general eduction in schools.

The author surmised that when the country discounts the benefit of well-rounded general learning, they grow up a population that isn’t able to discern fact from fiction. This is especially important in the realm of governmental misinformation, fake news and everyone with a twitter feed feeling the need to be a citizen reporter.

The article details a confrontation between a rural, poor school district superintendent in Pennsylvania asking for funding and receiving slap in the face rebuttals that cut to the very core of the purpose of education.

Namely — what is the role of public education? Is it to provide a broad general curriculum that allows the child to grow up an informed citizen able to evaluate options while exercising his civic duty? Or is the role of public education purely to provide a (docile) workforce?

While we don’t agree with everything the author wrote, they did make some salient points. The idea of government deciding who and who isn’t worthy of access to foundation education doesn’t sit right with us.

To quote the state’s attorney John Krill bluntly: “What use would someone on the McDonald’s career track have for Algebra 1?”

For example, if someone wants to be a pilot, does that automatically mean that they should not learn to appreciate the arts? I find this completely shortsighted. It’s the equivalent of castrating intellectual curisoty from a child when they are most vulnerable.

We are living in Orwell’s 1984.

You simply can’t make this stuff up, folks.

Furthermore, as the author highlights, who decides who is and isn’t on the McDonalds career track?

In 1947 with the space race making innovation a top priority, Truman was a huge supporter of so called “liberal education”. We know it today as the GI Bill that send millions of post-World War II troops to college. Governmental support for liberal education took a stark decline in the Regan-era and essentially never recovered.

This isn’t a conversation of liberal versus conservative politics. But I do think it’s about time we citizens stopped waiting on the government to fix issues that they often times helped create.

As investors and thought leaders we have a duty to put our money where our values are.

This is education debacle is just one small example of what’s going on in the world around us. (That’s right, the land of the free isn’t the only culprit in this case.)

One of the key initiatives we are rolling out in 2022 is the Economic Rights Movement (ERM). As real estate investors and investment educators we work everyday to improve the access and availability of quality housing in an effort to relieve some of this upward pricing pressure.

It’s a new year but we are on the same mission. Today we are more committed than ever and need you to join us.

We’re kicking off with a discussion as a part of Dream Week 2022 — an annual event hosted in San Antonio, TX and in conjunction with our friend Langston Clark from Entrepreneurial Appetite.

If you believe that everyone deserves a shot at economic mobility and want to participate (and profit!) from the shaping of our decentralized future then don’t miss this webinar. It’s complimentary to attend but the information, insights and conversation are sure to be priceless.

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