• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Allowing a child to associate their happiness with view counts is a terrible idea. Already too many sociopaths in “content creation” as it is.

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      12 hours ago

      Sure, I’m not advocating for doing what he did, regardless how he paid for it. I’m putting myself in the shoes of a young father that just wanted to make his kid happy and didn’t properly consider the bigger picture.

      People buy their kids all kinds of things that are bad for them with the best intentions. We usually don’t conclude that they deserve debilitating debt as a consequence.