[MagicMoonlight]

13 years old is old. I don’t know why people are always this revisionist and pretend children aren’t sentient.

By 13 you’re mostly developed. You lack life experience so you’re a little naive and you lack the final development of the brain but you’re basically a finished person.

There’s no way that at 13 you don’t understand that spending 64k is wrong. That’s an absolutely absurd amount of money. It’s like when people like you say they don’t know murder is wrong. You don’t have to be 25 to know stealing 60k is wrong.

[Vespasian]

It's fairly easy to imagine a 13 old knowing that whatever they are doing is "wrong" but totally underestimating the scale and impact.

Perhaps they were expecting a few harsh words at most and that was a price they were "ready to pay".

"Being mocked by the other kids" and "going a little bit over budget" could have sounded equally bad in their young mind.

It's fair to assume that they didn't intended to hurt their family this much and this is one reason why society severely restricts what people can do at this age.

[Tangurena2]

My parents never talked about money. Mostly due to my dad's toxic "no one deserves to know how much I make" attitude. I was over 40 before I finally got a grip on financial knowledge - despite me having jobs since I was 14.

[YourDadVPN]

At 29, I don't feel like I was "basically finished" until 25 or so, and feel significantly more mature than I was even a year ago. I'm very interested to know why you think 13 year olds are mostly finished developing.

[willcipriano]

Extended adolescence is a byproduct of postmodernity. By the time my grandmother was 25 she had been married for a decade and had 2 children herself.

I had a job at 13 and would've spent my own money on something like this.

We treat adults like children so children behave like infants.

[r2_pilot]

The human brain does not fully develop until around the mid-20s. https://hr.mit.edu/static/worklife/youngadult/brain.html

[willcipriano]

Alexander conquered most of the known world with a "undeveloped brain".

[r2_pilot]

You seemingly state that as a positive goal. I posit that many people would have preferred to be left alone and not killed or subjugated. Perhaps if he had been prevented from those actions until after maturity, he would have chosen different actions.

[spicymapotofu]

To rephrase the other user's [correct] sentiment, a scientific determination of brain development has more to do with myelin on axons than maturity regarding emotions, finances, or anything else we actually judge people on.