So, Pokémon is a multimedia practice for developing a sense of agency in financialized times. It is a form of what I call, borrowing from the work of Henry Giroux (2004, 105–124), a “public pedagogy” of financialization: it creates a learning environment for the cultivation of a certain repertoire of skills and competencies and, more importantly, an ethos.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 394