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All I see these days is kids watching mindless youtube/tik-tok videos all day. Perhaps sending them to a farm for some movement might actually be good for them

All I see these days is kids watching mindless youtube/tik-tok videos all day. Perhaps sending them to a farm for some movement might actually be good for them & give them a sense of accomplishment. Seize their phones before they go.

31337Logic 3y ago
Younger me would have laughed (or even wanted to insult you) over this comment. Older me just gave you an upvote for it. I think you're on to something.
- bouncycastle 3y ago
  Thanks! Looks like I got downvoted to hell anyways, now at -2. But that's OK, I've got points to burn on challenging views ;-)
  - randomdata 3y ago
    Gotta spend fake internet points to make fake internet points.
beebeepka 3y ago
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- bouncycastle 3y ago
  Explain? Devices are everyone these days and child obesity rates are climbing higher.
  - beebeepka 3y ago
    Child obesity? Maybe where you live
- randomdata 3y ago
  > Do you work with kids? The comment implies that the kids don't work. They may not even be legally able to if he lives in the region of the world where the typical HN user does. If the kids don't work, it is impossible for him to work with them.
  - beebeepka 3y ago
    Following this brilliant logic, almost everyone involved in education does not work with kids because "it is impossible". I know exactly what OP meant and it was just grandpa talk. Grumpy sweeping generalisations are pretty common with certain demographics.
    - randomdata 3y ago
      Even watching mindless TikTok videos technically takes some mental and physical effort, if minimal. In that respect, the kids are indeed working. And educators are able to work with children in that sense. But that is not the context setup here. The OP implies productive work. The work children put in around education is not productive. It can enable future work to be more productive, perhaps, but it is not productive work in the moment. It is consumptive. In that sense, educators work for the kids, they do not work with the kids.

31337Logic 3y ago

Younger me would have laughed (or even wanted to insult you) over this comment. Older me just gave you an upvote for it. I think you're on to something.

bouncycastle 3y ago
Thanks! Looks like I got downvoted to hell anyways, now at -2. But that's OK, I've got points to burn on challenging views ;-)
- randomdata 3y ago
  Gotta spend fake internet points to make fake internet points.

beebeepka 3y ago

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bouncycastle 3y ago
Explain? Devices are everyone these days and child obesity rates are climbing higher.
- beebeepka 3y ago
  Child obesity? Maybe where you live
randomdata 3y ago
> Do you work with kids? The comment implies that the kids don't work. They may not even be legally able to if he lives in the region of the world where the typical HN user does. If the kids don't work, it is impossible for him to work with them.
- beebeepka 3y ago
  Following this brilliant logic, almost everyone involved in education does not work with kids because "it is impossible". I know exactly what OP meant and it was just grandpa talk. Grumpy sweeping generalisations are pretty common with certain demographics.
  - randomdata 3y ago
    Even watching mindless TikTok videos technically takes some mental and physical effort, if minimal. In that respect, the kids are indeed working. And educators are able to work with children in that sense. But that is not the context setup here. The OP implies productive work. The work children put in around education is not productive. It can enable future work to be more productive, perhaps, but it is not productive work in the moment. It is consumptive. In that sense, educators work for the kids, they do not work with the kids.