I don’t exactly disagree, BUT: why do your children have access to your credit card in the first place? Mine don’t. It’s not that hard to set up, either.
My kids both know the rules: No credit card purchases, no pay-to-win, no use of the allowance to buy anything that isn’t permanent*. It’s not actually all that hard to enforce.
Moe Lane
*Hats for their electronic dolls = good; Pokeballs = bad.
Eh, some people can’t stop pontificating about some things even when facts get in the way. As you say–why are you letting your kids have unrestricted access to your credit cards? You’re lucky if lootboxes are all they’re buying–could be porn.
(If anyone’s skin gets itchy about that first sentence, imagine I was talking about someone you dislike; that’s why I wrote the sentence that way.)
To be honest, I’m assuming that poetic license is being invoked here and that taking this seriously is like taking a story from the Babylon Bee seriously. If I were the writer and absolutely had to come up with something that made this possible I’d probably just mumble something about “eldritch hacking and information distribution’ and hope that people cared enough about their sanity to ask no further questions. @_@
I think they’re sending up the same principle, albeit modernized, as cereal and toy advertisements during Saturday Cartoons: That the number of parents who will buy shit just to shut up the incesant juvenile begging is of a sufficient magnitude Greater-than-Zero to equal profit.
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Such is the society we live amongst.
There are normal kids, who largely honor rules, and who just need a little reinforcement to dissuade them from doing something they know they shouldn’t.
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And then, there are others. (Say you adopt a child whose ancestors weren’t overly stable to begin with, and then was repeatedly exposed to meth prenatally. For example.) That’s a whole different ballgame.
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Amazon/Microsoft/Google very badly want access to your financial information, and to remove anything that might cause you time to think twice about an impulse purchase. Sure, you limit what financial information is saved as best you can, and password protect the hell out of everything. But even so, there will be opportunity. And it will be seized.