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Seems its hard to to trace causation either way. It could be that people play video games to escape the tedium of being un- or under-employed, rather than are
by willvarfar 9y ago
Seems its hard to to trace causation either way. It could be that people play video games to escape the tedium of being un- or under-employed, rather than are unemployed because they play video games instead of seeking work.
- cctan 9y agoThis. The same people that can be addicted to games may have the potential to be addicted to Chess in other time periods. But they will be regarded as genius chess masters. On the other hand, with our surplus of resources, its no wonder a percentage of our people can afford to do nothing but play games.
- usrusr 9y agoAlso, with our constrained resources, no wonder a percentage can only afford to play video games (as opposed to other pastimes that require significantly more space, transportation and equipment). Superficially both resource arguments look like exact opposites, but I don't think that they are really conflicting.
- Kapura 9y agoListen, one line goes up, and the other goes down, and here in America we STRICTLY ABIDE by the narrative that people who don't find outrageous success in all of their endeavours are lazy. Please, get with the program!