{"id":359,"date":"2002-10-03T14:07:52","date_gmt":"2002-10-03T14:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-359.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"one-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/10\/03\/one-share\/","title":{"rendered":"One Share?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still trying to figure out whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneshare.com\/\">this<\/a> (Oneshare.com) is a nifty gift idea, or a cynically opportunistic way of introducing children to the joys of capitalist greed before they know any better.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose we already give children toy cars to get them used to the idea that they have a right to drive, toy guns to let them know that killing people is actually rather fun, and TV programmes like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/education\/tweenies\/\">Tweenies<\/a> to reinforce the gender stereotype of ditzy girls and tough boys.  So why not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneshare.com\/exec6\/myfirststock.asp\">&#8220;My First Stock&#8221;<\/a> as well?<\/p>\n<p>Is it a potentially valuable educational tool for learning about saving, the responsibilities of ownership, and the stakeholding economy, or is it a sinister gateway into the world of day trading, inflated earnings statements, and IPO fever?<\/p>\n<p>Or am I just taking it a bit too seriously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still trying to figure out whether this (Oneshare.com) is a nifty gift idea, or a cynically opportunistic way of introducing children to the joys of capitalist greed before they know any better. I suppose we already give children toy cars to get them used to the idea that they have a right to drive, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/10\/03\/one-share\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Share?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}