shazow
@shazow.eth
Gambling is treated as taboo in school, all but outlawed. Is there a world where fewer people make devastating risky decisions in adulthood because we better acclimate and educate our youth via gambling in safer and controlled environments? Not to mention including any kind of financial literacy at all.
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Stuart
@olystuart
I had an elective Wall St class in middle school where we learned to study newspaper tickers and ghost invest. And of course us kids would be degens trading collectibles from pogs to magic cards, pokemon cards. My first rug pull was getting fleeced on a trade by an older kid. 🤷♂️
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shazow
@shazow.eth
I definitely had a big pog phase too. It was banned in school but people still played in the streets. One formative experience I had in elementary school was when a teacher made a fake currency to reward for getting questions correct, and you could buy candy with it at the end of the class. That day was math day, so lots of math questions, and as an ESL immigrant I was relatively better at math so I dominated. I basically bought the entire stock of candy that day. The rest of the class got really angry at me and started namecalling etc. I didn't super understand what happened, I was kinda in my own little world and didn't feel connected to anyone else in my class yet. But it was a valuable experience, changed my perspective a lot. Perhaps influenced my views on capitalism, even.
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