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How Roblox Exploits Children w/ Quintin Smith

Tech Won't Save Us

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The Cornerstone of Making Money on Roblocks

There are programmes and summer camps for kids that are aimed around teaching them how to make games in roe blocks. It's difficult to look at it and not see it as exploiting the labour of children. And any educational stuff to be kind of secondary to that. Because u make no mistake, this is a company that has built a multi billion dollar empire on mostly young people. And there are certanly a lot of kids making games for the platform. But when they become adults then that creates its own problems because now even thirties or thirtysomethings can still come and make games for us. Even though those kids aren't only less likely to make money than ever,

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