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To: kimberley who wrote (56972)	4/18/2022 10:12:44 AM
From: ajtj99	2 Recommendations Recommended By kimberley Lee Lichterman III Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 98650

It sounds like you may have run into a former fast food employee who found a desk job during the pandemic. In fast food, they have pictures of the things being ordered on the cash registers so the employees don't have to do any math. That's been the case for about 40-years.

To: kimberley who wrote (56972)	4/18/2022 11:30:48 AM
From: Lee Lichterman III	2 Recommendations Recommended By ajtj99 kimberley Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 98650

Just had something kind of like that here. Person went to the local grocery store and bought $2.50 purchase. Tried to pay with quarters and clerk wouldn't accept it. We all figured she couldn't do the math. Whipsawing around here. SOX telling a different story than the FANGM. RSP/SPX no help. Looks like my indicator is going to be negated on bond yields.

To: kimberley who wrote (56972)	4/18/2022 11:50:18 AM
From: TigerPaw	2 Recommendations Recommended By kimberley oldbeachlvr Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 98650

I was an engineer with a successful career in all things computer and electronics, and yet I cannot do arithmetic. Arithmetic is just something memorized. When I got my first calculator in the 1970s it was a game changer, I could setup my formulas fine, but to come up with the final answer I was counting on my fingers or chanting through various rhyming schticks to come up with the actual final answer. It was slow. The calculator brought my counting up closer to my thinking.

To: kimberley who wrote (56972)	4/18/2022 1:39:19 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	3 Recommendations Recommended By ajtj99 kimberley Lee Lichterman III Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 98650

< It's disturbing, alright...> 200 years ago, most American adult males could build their own home, with a few simple tools. 50 years ago, they could do major repairs on their cars. 25 years ago, we could read maps. Now, nobody can get from Point A to Point B without our smartphones. Today, we are raising a generation of children without the ability to do basic math. The movie Idiocracy was prophecy, not fiction.