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Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

The perils of shitty parenting.

Edit: Goes way beyond shitty parenting. How did someone this stupid get a company card let alone one with a limit that high? It's disturbing.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    I remember my father complaining about his company card. Apparently the bank backing the card had some restriction that the maximum amount for an individual transaction could only be some percentage of the cards limit. For example purposes let’s say that’s 20%. He had to purchase stuff for $30-40K on occasion. Which means the cards limit had to be $150-200K.

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