Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
by Retr0id on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:41AM
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It's more like giving them pocket money than a Mastercard. Given the dwindling number of ways to spend physical cash these days, a prepaid card might actually make sense, if you can monitor its usage.
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Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
by joseda-hg on Thursday April 17, 2025 @03:09PM
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The only place I would use physical money that doesn't take a form of digital payment, is public transportation (And that one is a matter of time)
While there are many formative opportunities about handling physical money (The sensation of exchanging physical coins is big on a kids mind or knowing they have money and having missplaced it), I can 100% see a case for a card instead, trackable, instant access to emergency money, etc