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dublinben  ·  2499 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That's OK. (For Now.)

If only they had some class consciousness, and realized that the problem doesn't lie with them, but with the structure of our economy. This is being done to them, not by them.

They'll certainly never read that on Reason or 4chan though.



kleinbl00  ·  2499 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's an element of powerlessness, though. I think if you look at Occupy Wall Street, it defines the problem exactly: a motivated, mobilized mass that can't suggest an easy solution but isn't quite mad enough to call for violent revolution.

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kleinbl00  ·  2498 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Packer's The Great Unwinding explained it pretty well to me. A lot of people were really angry, had legitimate beefs, but had no action items to make things better so it dissipated in a cloud of bitter disillusionment.

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iammyownrushmore  ·  2498 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would love to hear about it.

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CurryMath  ·  2498 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can only second this. Please @francopoli

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cgod  ·  2498 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You've got to be fucking pulling my leg with this shit.

Male twenty something unemployed gamers as an oppressed class? They have the privilege to sit around just playing games in a world where idleness so often equals starvation and death.

Anyone one of them could get up off the couch and get a real life (as in out of game RL, not at all in denigration) if they so chose. They have instead chosen to play games because that is an option open to them which they have decided gives them the most satisfaction.

The fact that they bemoan a life without sweet lovin could be laid at the feet of our educational system, opportunity cost is a good thing to know about, but it certainly isn't an unchangeable fact of life imposed by our economic system. It's more the consequences of taking the path of least resistance during an unexamined life.

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