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Not buying crap is the final optimisation.
by hycaria 8y ago
Not buying crap is the final optimisation.
- xnyan 8y agoDespite the best of intentions, fighting societal pressure is hard and has costs. We start advertising to children from birth as to the toys they want and it's difficult to make a 7-year-old understand that they are being manipulated into wanting a crappy landfill toy.
- hycaria 8y agoThey don't need to understand it. It's not about children, who are not supposed to have everything they want in life anyways, just like regular humans.
- xnyan 8y agoCan I ask a question, do you have any kids?
- hycaria 8y agoI have seen enough kids that age to know that there is no need (or even possibility actually) for them to understand reasons behind boundaries, only the existence of said boundaries. I also have myself been a kid who grew up with no gaming console in the age of Pokemon, who never indulged in kid music and derivates, who did not wear brands, who did not get to own a pet, and many other things my parents didn't allow, no matter how often I asked for them. Is it that hard to admit one's own laxism that there's need to resort to badly aged sophisms ?
- xnyan 8y agoSo, a very long way of saying you have no children. Wonder how I knew that? It shows. If you ever have a kid you’ll understand otherwise continue on being an overconfident asshole I guess
- hycaria 8y agoWell I'll ask my parents how they hold on denying me a kitten all these years then. Probably overconfident assholes. Or simply the surreal ability to get over kid whims and tantrums. But keep convincing yourself that your kid has a dagger under your throat at the toy shop checkout and that people with more will power are assholes. I have been on the kid end at least even if not on the parent one. You seem to have been on neither.
- hrktb 8y agoIt comes to what we call 'crap' Is a building kit with magnets 'crap' ? Is a doll 'crap' ? Is a hand powered fan 'crap' ? Are colouring books 'crap' ? I think a ton of small toys are tremendously fun, can help discover different mechanisms, and help grow a kid's mind. Limiting the variety and amount of toys can end up fine, but from the parent POV it's a bit sad really. Especially when by definition we can't anticipate what for any specific kid will be a hit and what won't.
- hycaria 8y agoCrap is what is not used I'd say. Also there is actually little need of buying stuff fresh from the shelves of Donki and the likes.
- _archon_ 8y agoKnowing what you really want, and choosing to buy only something that fulfills your use case, is the actual final optimization. Not buying crap is a useful side effect.