Comment by OtherShrezzing

>Teaching kids financial literacy without real money is like teaching swimming with PowerPoint slides. And we all know how that ends.

The opening statement of this article is fundamentally flawed. I didn't learn to swim as a child, and unironically, watching presentations of "how to swim for absolute beginners" on YouTube got me over the initial challenge of getting into a pool. I can now comfortably swim in the ocean.

This isn't just anecdotal. Go to YouTube, and search "learn to swim", and you'll see videos with millions of views, full of comments describing similar learning journeys.

You can teach people swimming in these formats.