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1. Modern Home Economics: Adulting, Living On Your Own, Self - Sufficiency, Sustainable Living

2. Emotional Literacy

3. Politics: Main ideas & Tactics

4. Religion & Society

5. Media Literacy

6. IT Literacy

7. Financial Literacy

8. Basic Business Literacy

9. Trades Knowledge

10. History Knowledge

11. Math Knowledge

12. Language Skills

13. Art / Literature

14. Science Knowledge

15. Skills For The Apocalypse

Level 1: Things to know in order to get through life:

Cooking (at least how to cook a basic meal)

Car repair (e.g. what the lights mean what the various fluids do etc)

Emergencies (power line goes down medical emergencies etc)

How to connect things (gadgets systems) together

Sewing

Basic homemaking & home repair

Plumbing

Gun handling and safety

First aid

Calorie counts

Fitness basics

Healthy living / basic health facts

Carbon footprint of human activities

Pollution & consumerism etc.

Sex-ed (which is a biology lesson, not a moral lesson)

How to effectively file a complaint with both a company and with consumer protection agencies.

Office Work is 2/3rds politics (Basically keeping the boss happy & keeping your opinions to yourself), 1/3 actual work.

Quiet quitting.

Knowing your employer / HR department isn't loyal to you.

Emotional maturity

Finding a balance in life

Finding the middle path

Knowing that you may like someone but that person may not like you back

World works on 'give and take'

Nothing lasts forever

The golden rule

IQ vs EQ

Value of persistence

Knowing when to finally let go etc.

Communism, Socialism, Anarchism (People governing themselves)

Democracy & its variants (representative - first past the post, proportional etc)

Capitalism & how it stokes over-consumption and base human desires to thrive

Voting on issues and not on ideologies

Nation states

Elites

1%

Groupism (Us vs Them)

Politics vs Statesmanship

Propaganda

Argument tactics, Public Speaking

Pseudo news

How the government works

Paperwork, forms, procedures

Checks & balances

'Letter of the law' vs 'spirit of the law'

Workings of the legal system - progress of a case.

What to do do when stopped by a cop.

The benefits of knowing people in the right places

Question the competence and judgment of the political leadership. They work on your dime.

Atheism

Organized religion

Religion's role in politics and government

Difference between faith and reason

Main ideas from famous atheists

Fake news

Paid news He said, she said kind of news

Astroturfing

Sock puppets

Cliches

Buzzwords

Content analysis

Recognizing disinformation

Recognizing the ads - they are everywhere. Most of the entertainment is advertising.

Movie business

Video games business

Level 1: Basic computer use. Basics of folders / files organization. How to format documents/text.

Touch-typing

Word processing

Spreadsheets

Internet search

Social media "hygiene"

How cloud storage works

Having offline backups of your data / Do not trust Big tech

Instructions on not believing most of what you read on the internet

Avoiding malware

Avoiding spyware (including the advertising variant)

Online scams & frauds

Difference between computer science (information theory

Complexity theory

Digital algorithms and digital system engineering Website / app programming etc.

Not reusing passwords.

Understanding the value and risks of one's personal data. How to spot a phishing email.

How to recognize a scam email.

A little programming so you know how you can get computers to do what you want.

A little bit of AI and Data Science / Data Analytics basics.

Knowing that humans make algorithms (at least s far).

Financial planning

Power of compounding

Health insurance

Right kind and right timing for taking debt

Marriage

Buying a house

Getting a mortgage and a loan

How to do your taxes

How to calculate future value of an investment

How to calculate the cost of a loan at a given interest rate

Both monthly payments and total interest payments)

Basic investment approaches

Maintain a proper budget

Plan for retirement

Financialization of the system

Tactics used by banks and financial companies

Needs vs wants

Who pays the most tax (salaried middle class)

Hypes (e.g. crypto)

MLM

Financial bubbles

Credit cards

Stock market as a business model for modern capitalism / Stock market vs Gambling

If it is to good to be true it is NOT

Business planning - 1 page business model canvas, product / market fit

Business promotion

Business accounting

Selling

Front line essential jobs:

Electrician

Mechanic

Plumber

Nurse

Doctor

Machinist

Sanitation (society shuts down without sanitation)

Robotics/ automation

Jobs that can't be replaced by AI (Artificial Intelligence) in the near future etc.

No need for college degrees. 2 years community college at most if needed. Apprenticeships.

Nation states / their 'special' origin stories

Big history (Timelines into the future)

No such thing as clean narratives

Victors write history

History vs propaganda

Big man theory of history

Debunking myths

Process of historical research

Histories of little things

Money math

Consumer math

Home math

Business math

Some linear algebra

Practical geometry (e.g.. construction)

Reading

Writing

Communicating effectively.

Using correct grammar.

2 languages preferably.

Classic works / canon (Genre wise)

Tropes

Shapes of stories (e.g. a situation - rise - fall - rise fall...)

Art styles

Writing styles (Hemingway iceberg, Faulkner / McCarthy Gothic, Markson experimental etc.)

How to market and brand yourself

The sad business of art (What really sells, making a living doing art, etc.)

Scientific literacy: Knowing how science works - By asking a lot of Whys. The scientific process. Scientific Literacy is more than just knowing a 'cool' science fact - e.g. number of sand particles on beaches of Earth.

Biology, Chemistry, Math, Physics are all needed in real world jobs & situations - E.g. What do plants and humans need to survive? How much CO2 is produced by burning a given amount of a hydrocarbon / a specific human activity like flying from A to B? How to read a periodic table

Knowing what elements a compound contains.

Nursing & farming.

Prepper / Survivalist, etc - Basic supplies to have in various situations. Bug out bags.