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Study finds young men are playing video games instead of getting jobs

41 点作者 sandmansandine超过 8 年前

15 条评论

nercht12超过 8 年前
What jobs? All the ones I know of are for people with &quot;experience&quot; with XYZ. Pardon if out of the bazillion candidates in this world, biz&#x27;s can&#x27;t find that oxymoron of a candidate: the perfect, outgoing socialite whose as good at brown-nosing as he is on the PC. You could roll the dice to go to school and end up stuck in debt over your head (btw, loan defaults are ever on the rise).<p>There&#x27;s more to this story than just the problems of getting a job. Society has become very digitized, and more and more, I&#x27;m seeing children play LESS because of busy schedules, so it gets replaced by the next most convenient addicting thing: video games. Result? - Loss of imagination. When I hear of schools &quot;bringing in technology&quot;, I can only cringe at how <i>insert explicative</i> the administration must be to not realize that technology is not a solution, it&#x27;s only a tool. Kids aren&#x27;t getting smarter (in fact, I only hear it&#x27;s getting worse), they are becoming less inspired. Some guys I know got their degrees and only looked for work because they knew they needed it, but they had effectively no passion, no dream at doing much in life, and the fun they had was primarily from gaming. As someone who dreamed of doing big things, I found myself rather lonely in my objectives. (Needless to say, I don&#x27;t play video games.) Anyone else felt this way?
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irrational超过 8 年前
The left out the porn.<p>&quot;When I watch porn, I know if I have a few minutes I will be rewarded,&quot; he said. &quot;With a girl, it&#x27;s always been up in the air with the amount of work I put in and the reward.&quot;
rumcajz超过 8 年前
This is the demographic that&#x27;s traditionally fueling crime&#x2F;war. You can give a positive twist to the story by rephrasing the title &quot;study finds young men are playing video games instead of shooting people.&quot;
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sturgill超过 8 年前
I had two thoughts as I read this:<p>- Lots of talk about how the happiness of this group of people was higher, but no numbers on the happiness of their parents. I have three kids. I love them immensely. I don&#x27;t want them living with me in their 20&#x27;s. Especially spending all day playing video games while I work to pay the bills.<p>- I wonder what proponents of Universal Basic Income would say about this. Turns out that when there&#x27;s less incentive to do things, less gets done. Which seems to run contrary to the narrative of &quot;if only I didn&#x27;t have to worry about bills, I could do something meaningful.&quot; At least for me, I find providing for my wife and children quite meaningful. What job I choose to do that is almost secondary.
jimmywanger超过 8 年前
Often, getting a job is a stepping stone to impress a woman, get married, and have children.<p>That takes a long time, and women these days usually work, making your job a lot less attractive to them.<p>Why not play video games at home? At least then you&#x27;d know you&#x27;d have some fun.
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XorNot超过 8 年前
This article is a pile of just-so bullshit designed to appeal to baby boomers so they can convince themselves that voting against unemployment benefits isn&#x27;t going to directly screw over a whole bunch parents and children from all over the social strata.
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spectrum1234超过 8 年前
&quot;That&#x27;s a big chunk of labor that could be used for something, and we&#x27;re not using it,&quot; said Greg Kaplan, an economist at the University of Chicago who was not involved with the new research.<p>I&#x27;m also an economist and this guy is not smart. Others will rush in the fill the void. Marginally there will be almost no difference. This guy is forgetting that directly below this group of men who now play video games is a nearly equal capable group who now has better job opportunities. This logic continues to ratchet all the way down....<p>This isn&#x27;t rocket science. Only if there was never a poorer group could this be true
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undersuit超过 8 年前
I took a long drive on Saturday, and on the way home I travelled past my old place. I got hit by a wave of nostalgia as I went past.<p>When home I found a Reddit post by a guy who overlays the Guild Wars maps on the Guild Wars 2 map[1]. Wave of nostalgia... followed by a realization, I can still play Guild Wars.<p>I cannot go back to my old house and relive my memories, but I&#x27;m a quick download from remembering similar memories made in that same house while playing Guild Wars.<p>That&#x27;s powerful. It&#x27;s the same reason my parent and grandparents made photo albums and home movies.<p>I can literally play a game to help me relive my memories and it&#x27;s not just me grasping for moments in my head, but it&#x27;s literally the same experience.<p>When I&#x27;m old and dying I&#x27;ll have the chance to start up a video game and get my nostalgia fix with far more satisfaction than if I was telling a story of my childhood to any of my future grand children.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;guide.thatshaman.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;guide.thatshaman.com&#x2F;</a>
lgas超过 8 年前
For a potential solution, see &quot;15 Million Merits&quot;, the second episode of Black Mirror. :)
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shenanigoat超过 8 年前
IRL, rewards come slowly, if ever. Setbacks can cost years of loss of &#x27;progression&#x27;. We are mostly, by definition, average, without much agency, without much optimism, without much opportunity. Video games provide the shortest path to a rich, rewarding experience for our minds. Platitudes about hard work aside (for they are for the exceptional), we are helpless in our pleasure seeking, pain avoiding minds. The disappointing mundanity of the &#x27;real world&#x27; cannot compete.
toodlebunions超过 8 年前
How do they support themselves? Parents basement?
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Balgair超过 8 年前
Where is the link to the actual study? I could not find it in the article. Anyone have the actual journal article?
im4w1l超过 8 年前
There are many companies (should be familiar to anyone in tech) and well funded organizations working hard to give more opportunities to women.<p>Well, they succeeded and this is what success looks like.<p>Their work hasn&#x27;t stopped either, so expect even more success in the future.
internaut超过 8 年前
Two words. Real wages. They are at historic lows.<p>&gt; Turns out that when there&#x27;s less incentive to do things, less gets done.
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medymed超过 8 年前
Stimulant of the masses