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Roblox Studio head: 'you can say, okay, we are exploiting child labour'... [...but..."they didn't feel like they were exploited] (web.archive.org)

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[–] wccrawford 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was reading about that interview, and it amazes me that he could say all that. I think he started to realize the hole he was digging, because he eventually started talking about just how few underage programmers they actually have.

IMO, you just can't mix for-profit with child labor. I don't care how much some of the children get out of it.

But then to find out they only pay out like 30% of the earnings? Outrageous. There's no way you can say that isn't exploitative, IMO. People are already railing against Steam/Google/Apple/etc for only taking 30%, and Roblox is over twice as bad for adults. Doing it to kids is just so incredibly wrong.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For anyone who is unfamiliar with these and wants a more in depth look at how Roblox is definitely exploiting kids (from 2 years ago, so you know it's somehow been made worse since)

Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers

Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

+1 for these videos. Any positive examples of kids getting famous/rich from it are cherry picked and the vast majority are fully exploited.