alt Hacker News>If you are going to implement age controls, you should implement a ban on underage influencers as well.
That just makes it even worse, why deprive the younger generation of one of the few remaining methods they have to make a decent income? We should be encouraging youth entrepreneurship, not making them spend even longer in classrooms learning things that LLMs will do better than them.
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People under the age of 16 shouldn't be worried about "making a decent income". They should focus on school.
In the weekends they can stock shelves, deliver pizza, deliver newspapers, wash dishes, babysitting, feed animals or other typical jobs for children in the age range of 12 to 16.
Since when did being an influencer become 'one of the few remaining methods' to make a decent income?
Less education, more peddling products on Instagram is... certainly an opinion that exists.
This is almost verbatim the same argument that people make in support of allowing child labor in factories.
Children do not need, nor are they entitled to, any kind of "freedom" to work for a living.