• The Quuuuuill
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      7511 months ago

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

      • @themurphy@lemmy.ml
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        311 months 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
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          3811 months ago

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

        • @ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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          211 months 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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      11 months 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.