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Nice find. Some stuff from the article:

And tells stories about players who know very little about bank accounts or credit cards and, for example, take their first huge paycheck to a check-cashing place.

Why would you do that? If you take it to your bank, they'll cash it for free! How are people not aware of that? I don't know anyone much past freshman year of high school who doesn't have some kind of checking/savings account.

Know the difference between ‘need’ and ‘want’ when people ask you for money.... “I finally learned how to cope with this type of request. I paid the bills directly to the company or handyman doing the work. It was amazing to see how my family responded when I told them I would take care of it.”

Yea, you can be a good family member/friend and help out. But I'm sure, in his case, this direct-payment method likely cut the requests in half. at least.

Sad that so many people have no shame and are willing to just ask someone for money. Sigh. My roommate's in his late 20s and has made 6 figures for the past couple years. The only time I don't pay for stuff is sometimes if he wants to go to a really expensive place for dinner or something and he offers to pay. I would never just ask him for free money...