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Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

DoorDash.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

or somebody's going to make food for you and will bring it to you, you just have to give them money.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

And it's that you just have to give them money thing that's kind of a problem right now because wages haven't kept up and debt has just continued to increase.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

In the second quarter of 2025, America had $1.21 trillion of credit card debt.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

The average American had almost $6,500 of credit card debt on their card at the time.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

So it's not like there's just some easy solution.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

Like maybe there will be as stuff like that becomes cheaper.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

But right now, there's just a whole grab bag of problems that you can trace back to if not coming from home ec not being taught.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

Home ec being taught could have solved them or could solve or prevent them in the future.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

Yeah, I'm really glad you said that because this could so easily slide into, well, when we were in school, we learned all this stuff and look at how great we turned out.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

It could just be people who are proponents of home ec, not understanding where the country is going, where the culture is going.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

And it's going away from home ec in a different direction that will take care of itself.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

It's not like home ec is the solution to every problem.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

So that's a really good argument against it.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

There's others, too.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

Like do we if we bring back like vocational education, does the U.S.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

need jobs like that?

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

And you can make an argument against that argument and that, yeah, we do, especially hands-on jobs like trade skills, like plumbing and electricians.

Stuff You Should Know
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

Jensen Wang, the CEO of NVIDIA, said the next generation of millionaires are going to be plumbers and electricians because it's so hard to replace that with AI.