Economics for 5 year olds

Kids are amazing! We should never forget that we used to be them.

As adults, we should often re-connect with the love and simplicity that a child sees the world with. An undamaged child has not yet been faced with the "narrative of survival" in an artificial "Old Game" like most adults have.

Give this a read for yourself first, and then take it for a test drive with any kiddos in your life! What did they have to say? Share it with others if you have an "aha moment" along the way. When did your generally-accepted "adulting narratives" take over? It's not too late to change our story and make a better one!

Story for kids begins here:

Written in a voice to be read to 3 - 5 year olds.

We have a big world 🌎 , with lots of people. Some are young like you, and some are older. But everyone matters. 💜 Everyone is special and unique, because they have lots of different ways they can help the world. Everyone has value.

In order for everyone to be able to help the world in their unique ways, we all need some basic things like homes 🏡 and food 🍎. The homes and food might look different depending on where you live in the world. But, everyone can work together to make sure we all have these important things.

To make it easy for people to work together, one of the things we need is a way to keep track of how they help the world each day. We call this "value". When you're nice to other kids, when you share toys, when you read a book, when you help make dinner 🍝, and when you eat your fruits 🍌 and veggies 🥕 – all those things have value!

The silly thing is, we don't start keeping track of that "value" until you're all grown up. And the even sillier thing is that once all the gown ups started keeping track of their value, they didn't remember any of things I just told you about! They forgot that being kind, helping others, and eating healthy has value! 🙈 They forgot that our special talents are supposed to be used to work together - making sure that everyone has a home and food to eat.

In fact, a lot of the talents adults have don't even get used to make the world better! Isn't that silly?

Instead, adults today mostly have jobs that make them do silly things. Often, they don't really like their jobs and it makes them unhappy. 🤨 Some start 'businesses' like lemonade stands (but bigger). If people have had enough lemonade to drink, they try to convince them to buy more anyway... even though we know lemonade is a sugary treat we don't need very often!

And instead of the adults keeping track of their value for things that matter, someone else decides what their value is and gives them "money" 💵 for doing a "job". Some adults need 2 or 3 jobs to have enough money for a home and food. And some adults do jobs there just isn't money available for - like being a parent or taking care of a grandparent.

Sadly, all this silly behavior by the adults has created some big problems in the world. 😔 There are lots of people who don't have homes or enough to eat. A lot of the farm animals are treated very badly 🐷 and we're not very nice to mother earth – we throw away our plastic trash 🥤 and cut down the rainforests 🪵. People only do this because adults decided that getting money was the most important thing. And the only reason money is so important is because it's the only way to buy food 🍲 or a house. And everyone needs those. A lot of adults feel trapped and they aren't sure what to do.

But you're so creative, I bet you could think of some new ways of doing things! Have any ideas?💡 We think we can do a LOT better job, and the good news is that there are lots of smart adults that are already working together to solve those big problems.

It's a pretty exciting time, because some of those smart adults came up with really neat ways that everyone, including kids, can write down the valuable ways they help the world each day AND be rewarded with a new kind of money called "Gratitude"! You don't need a "job" to make Gratitude, so no one will be left out. You just need to give value to the world in a meaningful way. Everyone can create Gratitude. 💧 All the adults need to do is agree that we should use it for food, houses, clothing, and then everyone will feel a lot better because we'll all have enough! When adults aren't so stressed, they can solve those big problems much faster together. 🤝

What's even more cool is that we can also work together in new ways to create things that are really nice for the world and it make it more fun for everyone! There are lots of new toys we can use to make stuff better, most adults just haven't learned about them yet. But they can! Because computers are so awesome 🤩 we can connect with people all over the world. And use our Gratitude to build things that really help the world! 🌎

THE END.

With a new, kinder money, what would you give it to that could help the world?

In what ways have you felt called to give your special talents to contribute to a world you want so see?

Keep an eye out for more posts to learn how to start recording your value, and how you'll be able to turn that value into a new Gratitude currency that the whole world can thrive with!

• 3 value blocks went into this post, by two people.
• $300 of base value.
• Each "Appreciated" value block generates 100 Gratitude

🟧 Wrote Economics for 5 year olds (L) 👩🏻‍🏫✍🏻 |+E|:: enjoyed writing this by hand with some basic drawings.
🟧 Digitizing Econ for 5 yr olds (B) 💵👧🏻 |+E|{TW}(L)
🟧 Edited & posted new blog (L) 🤓 |Coop|{TW}

If you enjoyed reading this post, we welcome you to give to these "value blocks" using bitcoin, a money created from "value", backed by sustainable energy.

Kids Toy Photo by Vanessa Bucceri on Unsplash