The 21st century is exciting. The other afternoon, without going any further, I attended a women's meeting to talk about money and not only did it cost me nothing –not even one of Roman-style squid and local vermouth– but I noticed something: why in schools do not study or talk about money, called to determine adult life?
The thing about women has an explanation and it is what they imagine but without ulterior ends. It was a talk at the Juno House bar –a social club in Barcelona limited to women, very smart, if may i say– in order to talk about investment funds.
And with what ease! Like when we talked about the friends of the future of Ferran Torres.
Naturally, I felt an inferiority complex because to talk about investment funds you have to have funds (not to be confused with low funds). Money, pasta, twine, parné...
The culprit that I do not have money and was a listener –exempt from the show off that every gentleman aspires to surrounded by ladies– is the school of this country. Of the money he only taught us a poem and still thank you. A lot of Isósceles, Baroja, Quevedo, Pompeu and Lapetra then, a lot of the environment, multiculturalism and sex now, but nobody, nobody explains to children what will be decisive in their lives: money.
I already imagine the origin of this lagoon. Talking about money was impolite, he predisposed to confrontation – my father earns more than yours! – and only interested the rich. If he is the holder of life!
Then there is Spain and money, a paranormal relationship. If we discuss on behalf of virgins, how are we going to teach something indisputable about money, that force of nature that is loved and hated, the one that creates inequalities or the one that ends them.
I am very afraid that the boys and girls of the 21st century will not learn the rudimentary principles of money, its reproduction mechanisms and the importance of having it or not having it. To go for him in adulthood or despise him. It would be, without a doubt, a good subject: “Money”. Powerful lady is Dona Dinero. And how badly we know it!
