This video from @AtelierMissor_ reminds me of one of the biggest frustrations of my childhood. Around 12 or 13, I desperately wanted to work. I lived in Luxembourg, right at the heart of the European institutions: a city full of strict rules meant to "protect" everyone. The law banned any kid under 15 from working, period. No shop job, no delivering newspapers like kids did elsewhere, and nobody would pay a kid in cash anymore. Everything was set up so kids would only go to school. I also didn't have much access to a computer, so building something online never crossed my mind. That left me with a question I still have: why make it so hard for kids to start a small business, own digital money, or have a side job? Many kids are better at math than adults burned out by corporate life, and more creative because they haven't built up limiting beliefs about the world yet. Why waste that talent? I'm not saying we go back to the 1800s and send kids down the mines. I'm Argentinian and grew up in France, two countries shaped by: Sarmiento, who pushed universal public education in Argentina and as a result drove to its prosperity in the early 1900s, and Jules Ferry, who made school mandatory in France in 1882 and turned kids who would have worked in coal mines into future scientists. Protecting kids was one of the best things we ever did for humanity. But I think we went too far. We overprotected, like we always do when we leave our destiny in the hands of bureaucrats. Letting kids own digital money and run a lemonade stand again (a digital one prob today) would unlock huge value that's hard to measure, because it compounds: more people who don't miss their shot at becoming builders, and more businesses that would otherwise never exist. That's why I'm excited about @whop, which dares to put this back on the table and shows that kids building businesses has far more upside than downside. That's why I'm excited about @RipioApp, which dares to bring the Argentine peso back as a stablecoin anyone can own, like cash used to be, but with the convenience of digital. One day we'll have prosperous nations again, led by people who started building very young.