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This explains the current unemployment rate in the US. When given the choice between working several hours at a job you don't like to pay for entertainment ver

This explains the current unemployment rate in the US. When given the choice between working several hours at a job you don't like to pay for entertainment verses using a free option for entertainment that is just as good if not better, many people are choosing the former.

tekla 4y ago
Did you just extrapolate a low unemployment rate from the actions of a developer of a old free mobile game?
- gitfan86 4y ago
  No, I already understood the today's labor market and modern consumerism. I'm just showing a way it plays out in the real world. Here is another example: If you asked 100 random 20 year olds in 1985 what "success" looks like. There is a high likelihood some would mention large house, BMW, pool in the back yard, large TV, executive at a large company. If you did the same thing today you are much less likely to get that answer. Today you are much more likely to get millions of subscribers on YouTube or Instagram and no need for a full time job.
  - ouid 4y ago
    ah yes, becoming a part of the administrative capture, the most American of dreams.
  - falcolas 4y ago
    People wanted to be entertainment idols in the 80's too. They just called them movie stars. YouTube and Instagram are just different media services, and at the "millions of followers" levels they do pay enough that you don't have to hold a traditional job.
  - JohnFen 4y ago
    > If you did the same thing today you are much less likely to get that answer If that's true, that sounds like progress to me.
- Strs2FillMyDrms 4y ago
  I did not understood op's comment but it is not that hard to come up with a link (without it being a stretch) since both have a common (broad and too generalized) goal: profit maximization, which means there must be an intermediate step of instrumental convergence. There are methods of profit maximization whose abstract functionality is basically the same, the only thing that changes are the parameters. I sincerely believe administrative sciences tend to not make clear abstractions out of this, since that is... hard...

tekla 4y ago

Did you just extrapolate a low unemployment rate from the actions of a developer of a old free mobile game?

gitfan86 4y ago
No, I already understood the today's labor market and modern consumerism. I'm just showing a way it plays out in the real world. Here is another example: If you asked 100 random 20 year olds in 1985 what "success" looks like. There is a high likelihood some would mention large house, BMW, pool in the back yard, large TV, executive at a large company. If you did the same thing today you are much less likely to get that answer. Today you are much more likely to get millions of subscribers on YouTube or Instagram and no need for a full time job.
- ouid 4y ago
  ah yes, becoming a part of the administrative capture, the most American of dreams.
- falcolas 4y ago
  People wanted to be entertainment idols in the 80's too. They just called them movie stars. YouTube and Instagram are just different media services, and at the "millions of followers" levels they do pay enough that you don't have to hold a traditional job.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  > If you did the same thing today you are much less likely to get that answer If that's true, that sounds like progress to me.
Strs2FillMyDrms 4y ago
I did not understood op's comment but it is not that hard to come up with a link (without it being a stretch) since both have a common (broad and too generalized) goal: profit maximization, which means there must be an intermediate step of instrumental convergence. There are methods of profit maximization whose abstract functionality is basically the same, the only thing that changes are the parameters. I sincerely believe administrative sciences tend to not make clear abstractions out of this, since that is... hard...