Whoever makes a video game that indirectly teaches kids how to manage debt will change the world for the better, not just because our economy relies on consumer debt but because debt — and interest, in particular — requires a kind of fortune telling.
Many of the existential threats to our species require us to think about the future in ways our brains find difficult. It’s hard to connect the dots between what I do in the next five minutes and how that might affect me in fifty years. All the more reason to make a game out of it.