• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Most of them created from literal child labor and exploitation. Roblox as a platform is incredibly predatory and I don’t mean in a chomo way (though that too, sadly).

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      Most of them created from literal child labor

      Yeah it’s child labor but at the same time it’s kids writing their own games and sharing it with their friends. It’s the same as a kids youtube channel where they build Lego to show off for their friends- which Google and Lego profit from.

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        2 days ago

        From which a multinational company is profiting heavily.

        I love that kids can have a place where they can be creative and all but of a company profits of that, yeah, it’s child labor

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          Yeah, I’m conflicted too. It’s child labor but we’re stuck in capitalism. Lego profits off of children. Minecraft profits off of children. I’m sure there are independent games on Steam written by teenagers that Steam is taking their 30% cut from.

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          Flash games didn’t have a megacorp in the middle taking a cut on microtransactions. That’s a big difference.