Don't blame the Sharesies crowd. They just don't know what they are doing. The real probem is subsequent governments running down our school system and life education.
Hey - I used to learn at school nearly 50 years ago (in a different country) about the basics of the sharemarket as well as about maths and statistics. They considered this just as honing of the life skills. Good schools back in
Germany.
What do we teach the young generation in our schools? Maybe they learn some words in Te Reo (though language education is just another joke in NZ schools), but they certainly don't learn about the stock market. I still remember the guy running teacher education in Christchurch boosting some years ago that maths is not important anymore. He probably was never good in maths, so they made him head of education - makes sense.
Blame politics and the idiots they put in charge of teachers education for this misery.
But I suppose the government does not know either what they are doing ... i.e. can we really blame them?
Anyway - its probably not just AIR which deserves to bite the dust ...