Low-income people spending a lot of time on video games should be encouraged to work more or acquire skills in their spare time. 'Adults who play video games d

Low-income people spending a lot of time on video games should be encouraged to work more or acquire skills in their spare time. 'Adults who play video games daily are much more likely to be working-class than middle-class, new research shows. Although as teenagers their rates of daily playing were similar, by aged 20 middle- class people were devoting more time to their careers, the study found. Xiaobin Zhou, Dr. Adrian Leguina and Professor Paula Saukko, from Loughborough University, interviewed 37 gamers and analyzed survey data on 3,357 English people aged 16–34. From the survey, they found that among people aged 20–24, 8.7% working in higher managerial or professional jobs played video games every day, compared with 20% of people in routine or manual jobs.'