Marketplace Morning Reports' new Skin in the Game series explores what we can learn about

money and careers from the $300 billion video game industry. Plus, here how an Oakland-based

program helps young people get the skills they need to break into this booming industry.

Listen to Skin in the Game and more from the Marketplace Morning Report wherever you get your

podcasts. Turning personal finance into a game from American public media, this is Marketplace

Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Carrino.

For a lot of people, lessons about investing and personal finance are learned the hard way.

Now Marketplace has a new show on YouTube called Financially Inclined that aims to teach young

people about money in a less painful fashion. It's made in collaboration with next-gen personal

finance, a financial literacy nonprofit, and hosted by Yaneli Espinault, who says digital tools,

like computer games, can help get inexperienced investors engaged.

The reality is no matter how much you add money to a savings account, you just can't build wealth

inside of a savings account. You have to learn about investing to build wealth and there's lots of

ways to invest, but the most accessible, I would say pretty much anyone, regardless of your credit

score or how much money you have, you could start investing with a dollar and a Wi-Fi connection.

So I think it's really important for us to start teaching students about investing in the stock market

so we can really help them set themselves up for long-term success and not just thinking about

this month's, you know, next month's finances, but really thinking about the long term of their life.

Yaneli shows me an old school browser game made by next-gen personal finance

to help illustrate some of what she's talking about. So right off the bat, you start with some

money because, you know, you have to have something if you want to invest money, right?

I've been given $4,000, which is a pretty good chunk. That is a nice chunk.

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