While I agree with you the poster's hyperbolic analogy was off the mark. And perhaps now I'm being a bit off topic, but I do need approval from my county government to add an electrical outlet to my house. I think the permit was around $150. Luckily I am allowed to do the work myself, so I don't need to hire anyone licensed.
Turns out having a society means there are rules in order to coexist. Ideally rules that benefit people in that society and if it is democratic in any way, that people mostly agree to follow on principle rather than on threat.

When ADHD negatively impacts your life, it is time to seek treatment options. Medication can be very effective in most individuals, and both children and adults have a lot of self-doubt tied up into the troubles with executive function that ADHD/ADD bring.

While it is true that modern public school systems, especially how they operate in the United States, was in many ways designed to create obedient factory workers for the industrial revolution. That sufferers of ADHD don't thrive in that environment is a symptom of a greater challenge that individual is facing, simply removing our arcane repressive education system doesn't suddenly fix everything for someone with ADHD. I completely agree with the sentiment that public schools are not looking out for what is in the best interest of the children. A problem that exists for children that don't have ADHD as well. But even in a home school environment, the outcomes for someone with untreated ADHD is not encouraging. Not just academic outcome, but psychological, emotional, and relationship outcomes as well.

Loss leader is a strategy of using the power of capital to win market share. Instead of innovation, production, or hard work to produce a better product or better value for the consumer. Winning on your own merits hasn't been part of our economic system as far as I know. (while China claims to be communist, they readily participate in the same global market as everyone else)

Punished for not being fully on board with building killbots for the government. Hesitation is treason.

I semi-retired on NVDA. And you can see them on the bottom of my link.

it's more that we're not talking about the same thing and you mislabel it. And then when you go to compare Democratic Party platform to your mislabeled socialism, you conveniently slide over to a completely different definition. In short, you're not arguing in good faith.

I remember the Dot Com crash ripping my Dad's retirement account to bits. This is going to be a repeat of that for most of the middle class that let some investment account manager play with their life savings.

No worker councils, so not socialism. Those examples are explained away a various aspects of welfare capitalism, fascism, or authoritarian.

But Bezos just said it wouldn't, who should I believe: This very successful business man, or the history of successful business men?

AI shit the bed and we're calling it a "crisis", despite critics for years warning that AI was going to screw up the supply chain.

Not quite, the European Commission also has the responsibility to proposes legislation and send it to the European Parliament. The EC declined to do their exclusive duty according to the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) and unilaterally dismissed the required 1 million signatures in an anti-democratic fashion.
Next step is to go to European Parliament, which has a lower bar for petitions and is generally more willing to exercise its authority against other branches.

Spending more than your revenue with no answer to when it turns around is a recipe for a bubble.
Yet OpenAI is not the worst offender by a long shot.
ref: Is AI Profitable Yet?

Can I install /etc/hosts on Android and block social media, AI, trackers, and ads? Because that seems more convenient than spending $500 on a phone.

Ever take a tablet away from a 6 year old boy, with the promise that it will be returned shortly? Screaming and crying is just perfectly normal human behavior.
 

Cultural and legal reasons more than scientific ones. 12 year olds can work in my country (California, US). With limited hours and required to attend full time schooling, unless the 12 or 13 year old is a high school graduate, then can work the same hours as an adult. In another state (my home state), you can legally drive under very specific circumstances at age 14.

The cultural angle is that in Western countries going back to at least the Middle Ages considered seven to be the "age of reason". And it was an age where a male child would interact with his father more, and in some cultures start choosing his own clothing to wear. Commonly known as Breeching in English speaking countries , as the age where a child approximately starts wearing breeches or trousers. (the buttons and fit were a bit complicated compared to modern clothing, I think a kindergartner today would struggle with them).

By tradition, Jewish children become religiously responsible for their actions at age 12 or 13, and they aren't the only culture that sets a milestone around this age.

I'm mostly in agreement with your entire point. I can't think of too many instances where I'd trust a 12 year old to make decisions unsupervised. But I think letting them exercise autonomy and then receive a limited form of consequences is fine. The consequences that adults artificially impose on children are meant to be a substitute for real world and permanent consequences if we just Lord of the Flies our childhood.

Adults seem to have convinced themselves that letting their children play on a screen controlled by Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. for several hours a week is safe. When I'm more in the camp that it is harmful at any level of exposure, perhaps with the exception of direct adult supervision. (i.e. you look, I click, and I explain what a bunch of B.S. it is)