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> I don't know why parents would purchase consoles for their children as you don't learn any transferable skills

It's plausible that parents may just want their children to enjoy some leisure? To not feel like every experience in childhood should be preparation for labour?

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Parent comment has big “alpha grindset” energy. Like they hadn’t considered the concept of “toys”.

As a child, I was disappointed when I got a BBC B instead of a Megadrive. But I definitely learned more, and some of my leisure time was programming in BBC Basic.

Weren’t there like 10 years between the BBC and the Megadrive?

Yup. It was a very old computer for the time. You should've seen our cars.

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