Re:Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards
by AlexandrB on Saturday January 26, 2019 @11:48AM
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The fact that people watch Wolf of Wall Street and read it as an example to be emulated is very telling. By the end of the movie he’s in a hateful, bitter relationship, crashing cars into shit because he’s strung out on quaaludes and yet this is called “virtually zero consequences” because the consequences are not coming from an external authority. It’s the substitution of paternalism for morals and money for happiness.
Re:Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards
by muthdra on Saturday January 26, 2019 @05:07AM
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I agree with you but I would like to point out that this is not Elementary School's fault. It's society's fault and Elementary School is when we first see the effects of this phenomenon, also some (most?) people will only get out from their caves at a later point in their lives.
Then, after being learned at an early age, it is reinforced time and time again in the stories of entrepreneurs who make billions immorally and similarly suffer zero consequences.