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It is already the case, more or less. Parents manage their children assets, including money, and children abilities to enter into contract is very limited. They
by GuB-42 2y ago
It is already the case, more or less. Parents manage their children assets, including money, and children abilities to enter into contract is very limited. They can manipulate money, but only if they parents let them, and they usually do, because it would be crazy not to.
It changes nothing to the situation with ads. Ads for children actually target the parents, manipulating children so that they can in turn manipulate their parents. It can be terrible, for example by advertising for something fashionable to wear at school, too expensive for the child allowance, they expect their parents to buy it, because if they don't their kids may get bullied. Not giving children access to money won't solve this problem, quite the opposite actually, if it was their money, they could realize how overpriced the thing is and how much they could do by spending it elsewhere.
- netsharc 2y agoI remember when I was a kid (a long time ago now...), Dr. Martens shoes were the fashion, that my school forbade them. We had uniforms, but the rule with shoes was just that they had to be black. I think the ban was on the technicality that the stiching was yellow, so they're not black shoes. And a student tried to loophole the loophole by coloring the yellow stitching black. I wonder if some brands give out free stuff to "child influencers" so other kids would moan to their parents about buying the items...
- agmater 2y ago> I wonder if some brands give out free stuff to "child influencers" so other kids would moan to their parents about buying the items... See Ryan's World on Youtube for example, it's a huge industry.
- lupire 2y agoThey are called brand ambassadors and they go back to to before Internet. The best looking person at your college didn't pay for their iBook.