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foggy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Did your kid have a working phone before or no phone at all?
This is very unusual, be it pocket change for them or not. If you were a loaded with cash, would they be cool with you buying their kid a Ferrari? A cyber truck? It’s not a normal thing to do, and it doesn’t respect that a given home might carry a particular set of rules of values.
If your kid has no phone, I could see this as a possible charitable act. Still weird. If you kid has a working phone this is fucking bananas, and you’re right to question every detail of this.
Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 1 week ago
Lots of parents, rich or otherwise, just want their kids to shut up. Many rich people do this by getting their kids anything they ask for. This is actually a pretty toxic form of neglect. My bet is the kid friend asked if he could get an iphone for his friend too, because OPs kid expressed how cool his previous phone was or smth at some point, so… kid wanted to do something nice and parents didn’t give a fuck and just “yeah yeah, sure”'d it.