At least it exists.

My kids are 2. Im working on my "dad talk".

The best I've heard so far is something like: there are two activities that can irredeemably ruin your life: sex, and driving. Both are infinitely riskier with booze.

Teen pregnancy has to be an undisputed #1

Not really the same, I mean, Beanie Babies actually physically exist and require work to be produced. You could compare it to Labubus, Warhammer figures or collectibles of any kind but NFTs are just peak worthless stupidity with no prior equivalent

And timeshares. And pyramid schemes.

I remember my parents doing one of those weird chain letter things where you'd copy the letter to a few other people, send a few quid to the people on the list, and within weeks you'd be sent thousands of pounds, if only the scheme didn't require more people than there were in the whole country.

Pet rocks.

And every ridiculous “must have” Christmas toy craze.

Nowadays people spend their money on sensible crazes, like Stanley Mugs.

Lmao apparently people still think they're worth money. My 18 yo stepson said the other day how his mom could sell her beanie babies for "a lot of money!" We both just laughed. He thinks his mas produced Funko pops are gonna be worth a fortune one day too

Okay, how do you do that? How do you make some weird bullshit uncute thing that gets a billion people to buy one or two and ten thousand people to buy four hundred? Trolls, beanie babies, funko pops, whatever the fuck a labubu is, to a lesser extent, pokemon cards...Surely these people are millionaires but don't deserve it. I should be a millionaire and not deserve it.

I personally think it’s great to share your mistakes if you want to be open about them. I don’t necessarily share too much socially online but I do overshare in the office at times. I honestly don’t care what people think of me, I know who I am and what I stand for.