Across mainland China, a new kind of summer camp has emerged — not for swimming or storytelling, but for the cultivation of financial instinct in children. For a minimum of 12,800 yuan a week, families with means are enrolling their young in programs that teach wealth management, entrepreneurship, and the belief that poverty begins in the mind. This movement reflects something older than economics: the perennial human desire to spare one's children from struggle, now refracted through the anxieties of a society that has watched wealth arrive swiftly and unevenly. Whether financial wisdom can t