• BCX
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    51 month ago

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

    • The Quuuuuill
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      761 month ago

      Its exploiting child labor and the impulsive brain chemistry of adolescence.

      • @themurphy@lemmy.ml
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        31 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.

      • BCX
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        11 month ago

        “labor” 😂

        • The Quuuuuill
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          381 month ago

          What would you call it when a child does work that you profit from?

        • @ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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          21 month ago

          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.

    • @mashbooq@lemmy.world
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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.