That should be enough evidence for the rest of the world…
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Duh. You think the CEO of Kraft feeds his kids mac and cheese from a box?
Never get high on your own supply
Fucking degenerate assholes, pushing drugs knowing full well how harmful it is.
banned phones at the dinner table entirely
I would everyone is doing this. Sitting down to eat together once a day and talk isn't something only billionaires can afford.
Lol I've always known this. People are beyond retarded now. Like biggie use to say
" Never get high on your own supply "
That social rot you smell? It’s you. You’re the social rot.
What, Musks too? He's not known to have much to do with family.
But he is known to talk out his ass
Most Sociopathic Oligarchs see their offspring as future organ donors, so they can live forever. The Goblin DEFINITELY thinks like that. Those kids are livestock, nothing more.
First of all these billionaires can afford to replace for their kids; what social media is with actual socialising that is destroyed by fear, nimbyism, and systematic destruction of third places for normal people. that's what private cities and walled off estates are for. They will continue to enjoy the fruits of socialism while selling capitalism for everybody else.
This is not a force to be triffled with or dismissed as so easy to escape from.
that’s what private cities and walled off estates are for
I would just like to add that there is a school (I think in California) that the rich sends their kids to, where electronic devices are prohibited (and access restricted I believe). Though from the video, it does look lie the interact with others outside of that circle.
Here's the video: YouTube Link
Half an hour per weekday and an hour on weekends with the switch, plus strict rules on what als can be used. No roblox.
But we flood our kids with books or comics. If they want to read a book, well make it happen
Kids are fine with it. Boredom sparks creativity.
Even when I was a kid, in the 80s and 90s, I spent plenty of time playing NES, computer and watching TV. This was of course long before social media.
I don’t see how you could possibly limit a kid to 1.5 hr screen time per week. How do we define screen time? If it’s only social media on phones or tablets, then that’s probably okay. But if you are including console, computer gaming, tv, then I don’t see how that’s even possible. (And of course now most games have an online component, so the line gets blurry there.)
It’s the shitty “social” aspect of online that is harming children, not the concept of a screen.
I think social media and any game with micro transactions. We got the kids the switch, because with Nintendo, there are no shitty loot boxes or buy diamonds to skip time shit.
The hard truth is, games are way more addictive than in out youth. And parents need to deal with that and guide kids to good games
And finally, Musk, who bought the social media company X, formerly Twitter, in 2022, said it “might’ve been a mistake” to not set any rules on social media for his children.
That would require him to spend more time around his children than photoshoots and using them as human shields
Tech lords are among the most hated people on the planet.
"Dad, why people think you're a self absordeb, pathetic, nazi snowflake???"
How cute. They think the things billionaires say for ammo in the evential lawsuit are actually true.
the antichrist guy
the American guy who has been pushing for chat control through Europe so he can get paid destroying all privacy and spying on all European citizens through his Palintir, you mean, and ultimately delivering all power to the US.
it takes a certain kind of evil to literally recreate Sauron's Palintir. What is it Gandalf tells Saruman?, "There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power." He is literally following the script lol.
Theil reproduced?
Why do they have kids? Inheritance Tax Now!
Nothing to do with any virtue to be interested in their kid’s mental health and everything to do with avoiding getting blackmail using their kid’s identities
Goddamn, it reproduced already?
Of course you do hey do but millions of us keep eating the shit they put in front of us, me included.
Listen, billionaires suck. But if you think tech giants are hypocritical for strictly rationing screen time to their children then you have lost the plot.
Social media, and screen time in general, are bad for you. Everyone knows this now. If you aren't limiting your child's access, that's on you.
Before a child can get addicted, their parents have to give them access. If you can't live life without looking at a phone, TV, or tablet every free moment, then you're the reason your kids are turning into morons.
My son was never interested in video games, nor does he use any social media. Instead, he reads and watches movies.
He's a film studies student, and knows films inside and out because he's seen almost everything, from every country, from every era. He's also an avid reader of classics, and just finished Moby Dick. It wasn't an assignment, he just wanted to read it.
He wouldn't be that smart if he'd buried himself in video games and social media.
I imagine this us more about protecting their kids developing brains from being dopamine addicted gooners than concerns about their data or privacy