I've been having flashbacks of anti-communism lessons I received in grade school. Didn't remember exactly where it came from until recently. Now I remember in 5th grade my teacher "Mr. C." gave the class a comprehensive lesson on why communism is shit and how it's dangerous even if it sounds appealing.

He read Animal Farm out loud to the class, had us watch the animated version, showed us charts of a small wealth gap where everyone was poor vs a chart with a large wealth gap where the lower class was still much higher, explained the problems with centralized resource distribution, and walked us through thought experiments on what would happen if everyone got the same grade no matter how good their work was, etc... He then taught us about capitalism and some of the inherent flaws and how to avoid them by staying in school, avoiding having kids at a really young age, and getting a good job. etc...

Looking back it was incredibly based for a 5th grade class, and the lessons definitely stuck with me over the years. Growing up, He was one of the best teachers I had for other reasons. Really a great guy.

We badly need teachers like him nowadays. Hope he's doing good.