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		colechristensen on May 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fortnite is free, but kids are getting bullied int... Making the source of your profits be children's value signaling is ... unappealing. There is a difference between selling a game and giving it away for free so you can sell peer's respect via hats (or whatever). Then your product is children feeling inadequate in a way that can be solved with money which is some sort of sign of the apocalypse.

p1necone on May 15, 2019 [–]

You could make this argument about anything that is sold to kids, should we have a "you must be this old to ride the capitalism coaster" rule?

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