Don't even have the energy to actually read the comments. Don't know, don't care. I'm sure it's awful.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/oo8emc/good_idea/
Yeah, this is pretty reasonable. Honestly if my kid did the same I'd consider this. On the other hand, I learned when she was like 4 to enable payment locks on my phone and not store CC info. Still, she's probably gonna find a way around them.
A bit of an overcorrection and definitely an overly elaborate way to get the point across that it's wrong spend your parents' money without asking, imo. But unless they make it deliberately grueling work, not sure it'll do much harm either.
Or, or: teaching your kids that labor is the only form of value there is :markkks-juggalo: I’m kidding, but still seems like a mild way to make them appreciate money
This is fine. There's nothing wrong with this. I loved Debt but this is just parenting.
The work sure, but why add the step of the money? Why not say that you shave $15 off each lawn you mow?
You're trying to give the child a real, physical association with money. He pressed a button on the computer that let him customize his game, and now his parents are upset. If you just tell the kid, "Well now you have to mowe 7 lawns & your debt is payed," that's just punishment without demonstrating why the behavior shouldn't continue. If he can earn money and willingly pay his parents back, it's a controlled way to communicate that money represents work done - not just a different point to spend in a game.
Why didn’t the parent have payment details not saved or parental locks engaged?
Because we're tired, also a lot of these games and storefronts make it difficult to lockdown while remaining functional because they want kids to spend their parents money.
But also, my kid has bought crap on games and my response was "hey don't do that unless you ask first, it can cause a lot of problems for everyone" and didn't go straight to punishment mode and escalate everything so that they went and spent 100 bucks on bullshit out of spite. As a parent I can say that this will work 100% of the time, because all kids are like my kid, and if you don't do this you are a bad parent.
I'm very late to the party here, but in the context of Debt, I see why you're dunking and people in the comments aren't. Graeber had such a great ability to take some bit of our reality that we take for granted and shatter it with historical context. In a historical context that extends beyond the shallow memory of living in capitalism, we would all be horrified by what the dad is doing here. Because wage labor was seen as worse than slavery. Shit, this is effectively identical to this bit I just read in BS Jobs where Graeber points out that the historical context of wage labor was people selling the time of their slaves. In that context, here the dad is subjecting the son to a labor experience fundamentally more similar to slavery than any other, to teach him the lesson that labor generates value. If we weren't so used to it, it would be obviously cruel.
