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comment by cgod
cgod  ·  2477 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That's OK. (For Now.)

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.