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> Habbo Hotel turned into a pure monopoly when children learnt about capitalism on field.

> Kids are the easiest demography to scam. It also teaches them at an early age how to scam people

Who teach values to the kids are the parents, not a website. Kids don't learn to scam or to be anarcho capitalists playing such games but instead observing their parents.

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Well this is wrong. I learned the intricacies of CSS and HTML in 2006/2007 at the age of 12 by learning to create pixel perfect phishing pages for Habbo Hotel. (A fact I’m certainly not proud of but does make me a bit of a domain expert nonetheless.) My parents didn’t teach me that.

The learn this by observing other players.

Then people say: So then ban First person shooters, and then people argument: "Oh I play call of duty and don't shoot anyone in real life". So what? Do everyone get influenced by games or just those that - for instance - didn't have strong parents, teaching them things like values, empathy and etc?

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