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There really isn't a comparison here. Allowing a 12 year old to work in their parent's shop part time with relatively strict hour limits (at least in Canada) is going to inherently be less exploitative then a child working for a "game development company" in which they have actual personal connection to.

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this depends a lot on the parent in question, unfortunately. i'm pleased that you don't have any experience with that fact, and i hope that continues to be true, but it would be worthwhile for you to gain an appreciation of the diversity of other people's life situations

If your parents are shit they will be shit regardless of whether you're also working for them or not. Can't really get away from them unless you emancipate or something.

getting access to an independent income stream is vitally, vitally important in this situation, and getting away from bad parents is actually both considerably less all-or-nothing and more feasible than you are imagining, often

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