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Where does the other 80% come from?
by hueving 9y ago
Where does the other 80% come from?
- d--b 9y agoDon't know if that's true or not, but some people blame video games...
- Clubber 9y agoIf it were the 80s, they would blame heavy metal.
- dv_dt 9y agoDon't forget D&D as well as Devil worship... I wonder if "opioid addict" will replace the "welfare queen" stereotype for blame-the-victim-and-gov't memes.
- azernik 9y agoOpioid addicts tend to be white, so they seem to be getting more sympathy and less blame in the memeosphere than black drug addicts and welfare dependents did in the 80s.
- Clubber 9y agoYa but just barely. Based on deaths, blacks make up about 10% while the black population is 12%. http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths-by-raceethnicity/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-dea... The biggest problem with the 80s is the same problem we have now, Americans are easily scared shitless about every damn thing and the news just fuels it. In the 80's it was crack epidemic, devil worship and super predators. In the 90s, it was ecstasy and raves. In the 2000s it was meth, terrorism and trailer parks. Today it's opioids and ISIS. As a country, we do irrational things because we always have an irrational fear. Who plants that fear? News. Did you know we turned away boatloads of Jews during the holocaust because we were afraid German spies would be on the ships? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/jewish-refugees-in-the-us/514742/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/jewish-... Remember Ebola? Zika? Anthrax? That scared the shit out of everyone and it ended up being a whole lot of not much. When FDR said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he knew how afraid Americans are.
- nradov 9y agoYes economists have estimated that video games cause a 1.5 – 3.0% decline in labor hours by young men. https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/maguiar/files/leisure-luxuries-labor-june-2017.pdf https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/maguiar/fi...
- useerup 9y agoAging population and younger people chosing longer school/education over work. It is in the article.