Trevor is a hypothetical 11-year-old. If he's like 11-year-olds in my area, he's gotten a whiff of financial literacy from school and computer games: The school has given him a chance to spend his money to buy lunch, bake sale items and books. It's also given him a job running an in-school post office.
Computer games have given him additional experience in simulations that let him work as a baker, a farmer, a tailgunner and a spy. So far, though, he doesn't seem to have picked up any insurance literacy. When he dies in a game, he comes back to life because that's how the game worked, not because of any insurance.
When he plays farmer games, he has to worry about planting the seeds and harvesting the crops, but not about paying the crop insurance premiums.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
