>If you are going to implement age controls, you should implement a ban on underage influencers as well.

That just makes it even worse, why deprive the younger generation of one of the few remaining methods they have to make a decent income? We should be encouraging youth entrepreneurship, not making them spend even longer in classrooms learning things that LLMs will do better than them.

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jrajav 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is almost verbatim the same argument that people make in support of allowing child labor in factories.

Children do not need, nor are they entitled to, any kind of "freedom" to work for a living.

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retired 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People under the age of 16 shouldn't be worried about "making a decent income". They should focus on school.

In the weekends they can stock shelves, deliver pizza, deliver newspapers, wash dishes, babysitting, feed animals or other typical jobs for children in the age range of 12 to 16.

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hackinthebochs 5 hours ago | parent [-]

>They should focus on school.

Why? Presumably so they can go to college and get a high paying job that may not exist in 10 years? The direction we give kids coming up always seems to lag behind reality by 10 or 20 years. Perhaps we shouldn't stand in the way of the new generation figuring things out for themselves in this brave new world. The old playbooks to a solid middle class life are increasingly outdated.

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array_key_first 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Why? Presumably so they can go to college and get a high paying job that may not exist in 10 years?

Also so they don't end up stupid and useless like a potted plant. People with too little education are easy to manipulate and dim. They're perfect fodder for the propaganda machines.

It would be nice if we could just let kids loose like wild animals and they'd, somehow, figure everything out. But no, we actually have to try. Otherwise they end up illiterate and eating so much candy they throw up. Because they're kids.

	▲	hackinthebochs an hour ago \| parent [-]
		None of your concerns are relevant. We're not talking about 6 year olds here but presumably 12-16 year olds. And the issue isn't whether they drop out of school, but whether school must be their sole focus.

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connoronthejob 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Since when did being an influencer become 'one of the few remaining methods' to make a decent income?

	▲	bluefirebrand 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think it truly is, but I do think that the younger generations think it is. My nieces and nephews really don't know what they are going to do in their futures because so much is uncertain right now. If it feels like a longshot to expect normal 9-5 office jobs to be around in 5 years, and it's also a longshot being an influencer, then why not go for the influencer thing?

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array_key_first 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Less education, more peddling products on Instagram is... certainly an opinion that exists.