Toys should have educational as well as entertainment value; this is because playfulness in young mammals (including humans) is a preparation for adulthood. The

Toys should have educational as well as entertainment value; this is because playfulness in young mammals (including humans) is a preparation for adulthood. The old toy achieved this as it was a mechanical machine for making sound. The new one is just a fake, a lie. The only thing it teaches kids is that technology is incomprehensible magic that they shouldn't try to understand, a form of learned helplessness where people only rights/abilities with respect to technology is to buy it from big corporations. This is contemptible and disgusting.