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Will they also have periods of a bear market and see their money go down ?

hopefully, “The first national bank of dad” remains solvent.

And can they take loans with negotiated interest rates and lock-in periods? Or invest in more risky products such as derivatives with a corresponding chance to lose all money? So much potential... ;)

Re: Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

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There's an awful lot of negativity here, but as someone who's 55 and has earned a good wage since I was 17, I really wish I had taken investing more seriously from the very beginning. While I knew of compound interest, I really didn't understand it until like a decade ago. If I'd started putting 5% of my money into a target retirement plan from 17, I'd be retired now. As it is I'm not doing badly, but I really wish I'd started earlier.

So I say: Good on you.

Somewhat related: I just got my son set up with a custodial account and put his "kid retirement" plan into it, and let him pick a couple stocks to put some money into, and put the majority of it into target retirement and a few stocks and EFTs, so he can get some ideas of how they perform, make it a little fun with picking things he's into, and also follow ups and downs of the market, all of which I think is good education.

Re: Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

#103
post #80

Financial literacy is a gift, and absolutely omitted from standard education, which is unfortunate. That said, I don't think knowledge of investment gets you very far if your job pays subsistence wages. I worked for a popular fintech focused on personal investment and their narrative was essentially "financial freedom through investment". I think it's important to understand that even the most sophisticated knowledge…

> Financial literacy is a gift, and absolutely omitted from standard education, which is unfortunate.

With my tinfoil hat on, I feel like that is by design.

Re: Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

#104

Hi, sorry to be that guys, I just wanted to make some corrections on what you call your app a "plain html file". Your HTML file loads: - react app - pwa manifest - tailwind css This is not at all a "plain html" file.

is plain html different from single HTML? Because it is a single HTML that you can "Save as" and have one html with the working app.

When people talk about a single plain HTML file, it implies that all markup and code is contained in the file and no libraries are being used

Re: Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

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post #97
post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My mistake, it's just such a common trope in the US I didn't realize it was a universal complaint. It is true for US incidentally, people generally don't remember it because a) the learning and real world practice are too far removed b) people often are poor with finances regardless of knowledge.

It's not true for the US.

https://www.ngpf.org/blog/advocacy/how-many-states-require-s...

It's apparently now 30 states.

Re: Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

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There's an awful lot of negativity here, but as someone who's 55 and has earned a good wage since I was 17, I really wish I had taken investing more seriously from the very beginning. While I knew of compound interest, I really didn't understand it until like a decade ago. If I'd started putting 5% of my money into a target retirement plan from 17, I'd be retired now. As it is I'm not doing badly, but I really wish I…

Retirement is not mentioned in the post

Re: Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

#107
post #80

Financial literacy is a gift, and absolutely omitted from standard education, which is unfortunate. That said, I don't think knowledge of investment gets you very far if your job pays subsistence wages. I worked for a popular fintech focused on personal investment and their narrative was essentially "financial freedom through investment". I think it's important to understand that even the most sophisticated knowledge…

> Financial literacy is a gift, and absolutely omitted from standard education, which is unfortunate. With my tinfoil hat on, I feel like that is by design.

I don't think you even need to wear a tinfoil hat to reach this conclusion. Knowing about the origins of the modern outcome-based education systems in the West (we borrowed from the Prussian education system which replaced the classical education system based on the Trivium and Quadrivium) I would assert that your claim is spot on.

Re: Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

#108
post #80

Financial literacy is a gift, and absolutely omitted from standard education, which is unfortunate. That said, I don't think knowledge of investment gets you very far if your job pays subsistence wages. I worked for a popular fintech focused on personal investment and their narrative was essentially "financial freedom through investment". I think it's important to understand that even the most sophisticated knowledge…

> Financial literacy is a gift, and absolutely omitted from standard education, which is unfortunate. With my tinfoil hat on, I feel like that is by design.

How couldn't it be? If the finance industry made things clearer then more people would benefit from it.

Re: Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

#109
post #6

This is frankly depressing. > As my eldest son’s birthday was approaching, we suggested that instead of asking for physical gifts, he ask for their equivalent in money. That way, he gathered a decent amount of capital for his first investment adventure. Yes, why would you want a toy or a book? Why waste time having fun or learning? You could instead watch a number go up slowly while you do nothing. Fun for the whole…

He's teaching them the most important lesson of living in a capitalist system: wealth comes from having money, not from earning money.

If he's not able to also provide them with a sizeable initial capital, this lesson is also completely irrelevant. No one becomes really wealthy by investing savings off their modest salary.

Re: Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

#110
post #80

Financial literacy is a gift, and absolutely omitted from standard education, which is unfortunate. That said, I don't think knowledge of investment gets you very far if your job pays subsistence wages. I worked for a popular fintech focused on personal investment and their narrative was essentially "financial freedom through investment". I think it's important to understand that even the most sophisticated knowledge…

> Financial literacy is a gift, and absolutely omitted from standard education, which is unfortunate. With my tinfoil hat on, I feel like that is by design.

Probably, because everything would collapse if everyone was an "investor" and fewer people did actual work to keep the world going.
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