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The dad was a dummy. First, your little kid shouldn’t have a YouTube channel. Second, you don’t use a company card to buy Robux. That’s a moronic thing to do. Might have gone unnoticed but then he got careless with it and it came back to bite him. Bad parenting all around. Don’t blame the kid, blame the dad. Hopefully he learns a hard lesson and can find new work.
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Honestly, if you can't understand how absolutely debilitating this is over a tiny misstep, I hardly know what to say. People commit manslaughter and get off easier that this. It's in no way reasonable to say that "Oh, you shouldn't have used the company card to pay 20$ for your kid - you deserve life-ruining debt".
Allowing a child to associate their happiness with view counts is a terrible idea. Already too many sociopaths in "content creation" as it is.
Sure, I'm not advocating for doing what he did, regardless how he paid for it. I'm putting myself in the shoes of a young father that just wanted to make his kid happy and didn't properly consider the bigger picture.
People buy their kids all kinds of things that are bad for them with the best intentions. We usually don't conclude that they deserve debilitating debt as a consequence.