As financial products become more diverse, complex, and widespread, and more people join the middle class, fighting the world’s financial illiteracy will become even more of a priority. Practical and accessible education programs should be offered to the millions of people whose economic well-being would improve if they only knew more about managing their incomes and savings, however meager they may be.
If people, now, can't answer basic questions, how much can we reasonably expect in a world where finance is increasingly complex? Assuming it's richer, at least, we should be able to afford those extra training classes. But should we bother? (And will it matter? How much longer will money, as currently practiced, still exist? 200 or 300 years?)