• BCX@dormi.zone
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    1 month ago

    Sounds like a normal business that gives kids a chance to make money.

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        1 month ago

        Fair enough, but couldn’t the same be said about YouTube? They also take the biggest cut of the ad money for creators.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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          1 month ago

          Yes. Using kids to drive engagement on YouTube is exploitative. Parents who do that are exploiting their children

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            1 month ago

            But what about…? Doesn’t excuse the first thing!

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              1 month ago

              Why did anyone read my comment as an excuse? I was pointing two fingers instead of one on Roblox.

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                1 month ago

                Probably the “but”. I agree that both are exploitive and they should all be called out on it.

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          Is labor. There is a whole market of Roblox related things, there are job sites, freelance sites that employ kids to work on design/programming/marketing of these game modes. To pay them the game currency that maybe later can be traded for real money.

          Is not just kids tinkering with the game.

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      1 month ago

      A normal business, yes. Normal businesses are highly and cruelly exploitative, which is why we decided 80 years ago (in the US) that children, at the very least, should be protected from them.