Never get high on your own supply
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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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.
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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
That social rot you smell? It’s you. You’re the social rot.
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.
Tech lords are among the most hated people on the planet.
"Dad, why people think you're a self absordeb, pathetic, nazi snowflake???"
I imagine this us more about protecting their kids developing brains from being dopamine addicted gooners than concerns about their data or privacy
Of course you do hey do but millions of us keep eating the shit they put in front of us, me included.
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?