![]() ![]() Furthermore, the learning is real and the game is supported by hundreds of bite-sized lessons relevant to the game decisions. It teaches us finance by providing a safe place to explore options, make mistakes, and succeed or fail-with no risk whatsoever. Paper Chase, the text-based RPG we embedded into the Archimedes learning environment, allows us to play through different real-life examples that directly impact our financial well-being. How many times have we read something out of a textbook and forgot it as soon as the exam was over? Yet, everyone remembers to not shoot too much meat to carry nor to ford the river in Spring in Oregon Trail. As humans, we start learning through play at a young age - whether it’s social skills, better coordination, or basic physics - providing skills that we hold on to and carry with us for the rest of our lives. Additionally, the students who learned through play received an increase of 15% in educational value compared to those that learned through traditional digital courses. In 2009, a study published in Elsevier showed that game-based learning was 23% more appealing to students than traditional digital learning courses. We are a team of gamers and we believe that learning through play is much more effective than traditional learning. We believe that this simply is unacceptable and want to propose an alternative outcome where first-time investors can enter the market with confidence. He left a note and was angry at Robinhood, saying he had “ no clue” what he was doing. Recently, a young man took his own life after thinking he owed over $730,165. With the rise of /r/wallstreetbets, first-time investors are encouraged to speculate on stocks and hold tremendous amounts of risk while not knowing what they are getting themselves into - with, sometimes, truly tragic consequences. On the flip side, great tools can also be dangerous to use without training, practice, and the proper education to use them. Now that mobile platforms and trading tools have democratized access to markets, everyday people can benefit from the same advantages. Having direct access to the financial markets and being able to invest and compound returns are what have enabled previously well-off individuals and families to continue to build up bastions of wealth over the years. At Archimedes, we view such technological improvements to be a monumental step towards addressing the wealth gap between the top 1% and the rest. The rise of Robinhood, Acorns, Stash, and Webull has empowered everyone to be able to take control of their own financial future by removing cost and usability barriers. Fortunately, the inaccessibility of Wall Street and better access to financial products is changing.
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