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And they make video games to consume endless hours of Western productivity
by readthenotes1 4y ago
And they make video games to consume endless hours of Western productivity
- hayst4ck 4y agoI think this point is underrated (albeit a bit unrelated). If China is looking to abuse the world in the way it has been abused, and to cause humiliation to others the way it has been humiliated, then getting the nations workforce to spend their time sitting in front of a computer doing an almost entirely unproductive activity for hours on end, creating a dopamine high that most other activities and certainly hard acitivities like studying can't compete with, then video games share an aweful lot of properties with opium. Real money for digital currency or goods is also something that is ridiculous enough it should probably be heavily regulated.
- h4n1 4y agoAnd Instagram and Twitter and all the other domestically-produced mind-addling time-vampires? I understand looking for "real motives" but getting people addicted to stupid things is a very common business model everywhere under our economic model.
- mc32 4y agoIt's a double-edged sword. They also lose productivity due to games addiction by their own pop.
- wmf 4y agoWhich is why they banned online gaming for young people except for certain hours.
- elefanten 4y agoNot going very well so far. And, while this is far from a prediction, it'd be hilarious if an effective ban quickly caused major social unrest. Video games are (as) insanely popular in China (as everywhere else).
- EricDeb 4y agoWhen I visited china I saw a lot of people playing games on their phones on the metros (much more than in the US)
- dillondoyle 4y agoTikTok has sapped my social media time attention, that's for sure!