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While I agree with your statements, isn't this the same warnings that people gave years ago with the rise of television? Cable TV? Video game consoles? The internet?

I mean it's the same as children's TV on cable, with the main difference that it's infinite instead of constrained to at most a couple of hours.

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It is the same set of warnings. Those warnings are justified. This is anecdotal and I am well aware that all children are different. In my case, I have a 5 year old, there is a marked difference in their behavior based on the content they are is watching. As an example, we don't let the child watch "Paw Patrol" because it winds them up due to the constant high-intensity rush to solve a problem. Where as a show such as "Creative Galaxy" is paced to emphasize content instead of emotional waves. I would say that the beauty of the internet is now we can actually limit and screen content. No longer do children watch "whatever is on TV". They watch whatever on demand show that their parents allow them to watch. This is where pre-screening and understanding your child's developmental level are the most important. "Here's a phone watch YouTube." is the extreme and as stated in a prior post could be considered neglectful.

Yes and see what happened? We got NEET (people not employed, not looking for job) and JavaScript developers coming out of walls.

We have poor quality skills

Oh come on. NEETs exist because the job market is ridiculous, and while I like to diss JavaScript like everyone else, JS developer is still an above average result in upbringing.

The job market is better than it's ever been. The jobs are better too.

If you're a skilled professional, sure. If you're just a regular person, not really.

The very existence of the so-called "gig economy" tells us something is rotten.

There's always been a lower class working terrible jobs. Driving for Uber or working fast food for $8/hour is a terrible job, but it's not as bad as working in a steel mill or coal mine.

Except the people working in the mills and mines have full time employment with benefits and salaries averaging over $50k.

Now they do, yes. That wasn't the case 100 years ago when the steel industry was cutting edge.

Registered this account to point out that, when mining was a dangerous job that didn't pay well, we invented unions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Mine_Workers#Developmen...

The mean pay of a Steel Mill is $49,050. That's a lot better than an Uber driver. It used to be significantly higher.

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