Many people lack the numeracy to understand basic ideas about money and finance, which directly results in them getting scammed by banks, brokerages, credit card companies, and various hucksters.
And yet mathematics has been a mandatory topic in public schools for at least a century if not longer.
We also don't teach car repair, or hunting, or sewing, or cooking much anymore either, not because we don't need those things but because those high-friction tasks have been highly optimized to the point of being background noise.
Meta-adaptations and “kink-shaming” about math … I don’t know if I walked into some parody of the Silicon Valley show or if this is some kind of weird AI bot, either way I guess this is the shape of things to come …
We also don't teach car repair, or hunting, or sewing, or cooking much anymore either, not because we don't need those things but because those high-friction tasks have been highly optimized to the point of being background noise.