It's funny how those same billionaires who sell these devices, do not give their children devices until the age of 14.

PS to parents: give your child a toy or a book not a tablet ffs.

I agree for age of 3-6 years, but until age 14 is ridiculous.

Not all devices are equally bad.

I've been happily learning to code my own video games on Intel 486 PC in QuickBasic since late elementary school (age 10), and yes, I played outdoors with other kids too.

Before I had PC of my own, I was making them on paper (game design and mechanics, not literal code).

The difference there is that you had a difficult, meaningful, constructive experience instead of one designed to just addict you. Even though both were running on von Neumann machines.

You brought me back to hand-drawing platformer puzzle levels for my fictional game as a kid. Good times.

I think there is a meaningful difference between an Intel 486 and a portable device like a tablet, especially if the former is not connected to the internet (or is connected to the internet as it was circa 1995). I think it could be fine and even beneficial to give a kid a desktop computer to write games using QuickBasic, and at the same time very harmful to give them a tablet.

Another thing to blame on the billionaires then. Soon they will become like gods, feared and blamed for intentionally causing plagues and famines when people dont appease them enough.

They certainly have more affect on our lives than any "traditional" god. Apparently, reducing their tax exposure brings 10 years of good harvest.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. Sun Tzu

We could learn a lot from China. They know how to keep their own home grown billionaires on a leash. We in the West can't even do that.

Why would the west want to do that? Leashes are for dogs, not people. The people want to live in the land of the free, not the land of the leash.

some of us feel like we're on the leash and the billionaire's are holding it. A gov't, in theory, is supposed to represent the masses. The masses holding the leashes to billionaire's sounds like a great improvement over what we have

> Leashes are for dogs, not people

They did say "billionaires"...

Because billionaires use their money to put leashes on us all.

This. So much this.

I remember trying to emulate this game on my i7 laptop a decade ago. It was running like 15 FPS.So for me this look like magic.

a better title: "China Planted 78 Billion New Trees but at what cost"

"but at what cost" ?

I'll pay.

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