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Quote from: Queentoshi on April 18, 2025, 11:38:47 PM

I was thinking about how acquiring skills like cryptocurrency trading has helped a lot of individuals out of poverty, so I was wondering if subjects like cryptocurrency trading or Forex trading are introduced into curriculum of students, will that not have a direct impact on the economy of the country by reducing the number of people dependent on the government for a job?

No.. introducing trading in institutions is a bad idea.
75% of traders are on loss only few have been successful in making profit over the years.
Approximately 6.8% of the global population are into forex or crypto trading, imagine introducing 30% into that line what do you think we happen if not abject poverty. Trading has high risk, so it is for young ones or those in higher institutions to be introduced to it while still studying it will have a negative impact in their live and education.

It should be financial literacy that should be thought in schools. If many people will become financially literate they will likely put their money into investments. More businesses will be established and could provide more jobs to people. People having job means they will have more purchasing power to afford the basic necessities and even some leisure activities. That's a domino effect that will boost a country's economy.

Trading shouldn't be and never taught in schools in my opinion, schools is a learning stage for kids. Trading requires money to earn, teaching it to them is almost showing them how to gamble.

Agreed, instead of including trading, a field that is considered risky and gambling-like in the curriculum. That would ruin education, we should introduce financial literacy into education, it would be more beneficial.

Look at developed countries, they have strong economies, people have high incomes and stable lives...because they focus on boosting the economy by building infrastructure, investing in education, health care, attracting foreign investment to create more jobs in the country...They did not get rich by focusing on investing in speculative assets like bitcoin, stocks, let alone trading. Therefore, poor countries need to incorporate financial literacy into their education curricula.

To put it bluntly, trading is just gambling, and gambling cannot help improve poverty, so it would be a bad idea to introduce it into mass education and encourage people to participate.