A) I never said modern. Video games have been enthralling to people for decades. B) The word "addictive" gets bandied about very freely when it comes to video

A) I never said modern. Video games have been enthralling to people for decades. B) The word "addictive" gets bandied about very freely when it comes to video games. Unless we're talking about loot boxes or pseudo (or not so pseudo) gambling in video games, there's a pretty big difference between video game "addiction" and an alcohol/nicotine addiction. My hobbies are not "addictive", and nor are the things I find boring "anti-additive". Video games are designed primarily for the person playing them to want to be there, to learn what the games world has to teach, and in some cases to draw as much money out of the whales as possible. Standardised schooling is designed primarily to be quantifiable and scaleable.