[chii]

> allow such ridiculous amounts of money to be asked for in mobile phone app.

that is just shifting the blame to some external entity for "allowing" this to be possible - a slippery slope to the idea of a nanny state.

The parent's responsibility is to raise the child to behave properly. This includes examining their actions, and consider the consequences. Free use of a mobile phone is not good parenting.

[rowanG077]

I'm not talking about children at all. Adults are just as susceptible. A "nanny" state is a good thing to a degree. All civilized countries place constraints on what the people and companies in it are allowed to do. Simply because leaving it unconstrained will lead to society no one wants to live in.

[red-iron-pine]

parents vs. gigantic mega corps with more money than god and the ability to spam all forms of media with ads.

and they have to, eventually, bring in dark patterns because them stock prices have to go up. it's really just a countdown until the blatantly questionable behavior.

if parents did their jobs perfectly all the time there wouldn't be school shootings, childhood obesity, or plenty of other social ills impacting young people. these are systemic issues, and need to be handled on a system-level.