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This. This whole article made me realize many things about why some of my friends made the choice to sit home, play games, and live on welfare benefits, instead
by tappio 10y ago
This. This whole article made me realize many things about why some of my friends made the choice to sit home, play games, and live on welfare benefits, instead of pursuing education and career. I guess this "strategy" allows them to reach all the human needs with minimal effort. Why would they do anything else, if that makes them happy? Even if it only makes them just enough happy to keep on going, its still an easier choice for them than a traditiotal career. The effort one needs to put on satisfying the needs through working are on a totally different scale. Very interesting.
- maqr 10y agoWhat country and how? I'm just asking for a friend...
- tappio 10y agoFinland. You can get a cheap flat from the municipality(at least in the city of Espoo), then rent assistance from the state, and then you visit the welfare office (Kela) sometimes and tell that you are out of money, and they'll give you some. Id guess you have like 300e to spend per month for food, and you live in the outskirts of the city in a 20square meter flat, but hey, at least you can play your games as much as you want. Not the life id want, but some of my old friends with whom I still occasionally play games online have chosen that path. I've read that the number of young adults (mainly males) who are living outside the normal society is already as high as 30,000 in Finland, but I don't know for fact if they are all as extreme as some of the people I know.
- Toine 10y agoSound like 30,000 ticking time bombs...eventually they'll want more out of life.
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