So it is perhaps not surprising that for many young men, especially those with lower levels of educational attainment, video games are increasingly replacing work. Since 2000, men in their 20s without a bachelor's degree are working considerably less and spending far more time engaged in leisure activities, which overwhelmingly means playing video games. Over the same time frame, this group of men has also grown more likely to be single, to have no children, and to live with parents or other family members.
You might think that this would be demoralizing. A life spent unemployed, living at home, without romantic prospects, playing digital time wasters does not sound particularly appealing on its face.
Yet this group reports far higher levels of overall happiness than low-skilled young men from the turn of the 21st century. In contrast, self-reported happiness for older workers without college degrees fell during the same period.
Men are more likely to exhibit extremes of character and behavior, both positive and negative. A whole generation of men obsessively playing video games during their prime decades of life may not be ideal, but most would agree that it is preferable to riots.
I don't think video games are fulfilling enough. My issue with UBI is the idea that a paycheck can replace a daily purpose. You can game for an elongated period of time, but eventually most people will seek a purpose. If you do not have a path for them to find that purpose and worth then you may have a serious issue.
There is no "purpose" to working, either. It's just you doing slave-wage work for a paycheck for most people.
Universal Basic Income means these folks shift gears from "ugh, my job" to "ugh, my life/arts/whatever." Same shit, different day.
There is no "purpose" to working, either. It's just you doing slave-wage work for a paycheck for most people.
Universal Basic Income means these folks shift gears from "ugh, my job" to "ugh, my life/arts/whatever." Same shit, different day.
You might think lower labor force participation is a problem, but the article makes it sound pretty NEET.:foxx
+1I don't think video games are fulfilling enough. My issue with UBI is the idea that a paycheck can replace a daily purpose. You can game for an elongated period of time, but eventually most people will seek a purpose. If you do not have a path for them to find that purpose and worth then you may have a serious issue.
Arts, charity, research, etc don't exist anymore? Believe, doing anything other than wage slavin for a global corporation would give me more daily purpose
Left unanswered is the question of what happens after one's basic needs are provided for. Individuals vary, but virtually everyone seeks more out of life than low-level material subsistence. People whose survival needs are met seek power and growth, status and social connection—benefits even the most generous imaginable basic income cannot provide.
Nobody cares about the person who read a book, watched a show and played a game.
The stay at home mom has purpose. I don't think guys have that choice in life in the same way though. Not in any comparable way. This, of course, is under the view of heterosexuality.
Joanna Andreasson (photo: Call of Duty, EA Games)
My best friend is 36 and hasn't worked a day in his life (he has a Masters in Library Science so it's not like he's uneducated either), he still lives with his mom and sits around playing SF4/5 and reading 4chan all day. In a way I'd be envious of the free time but I'd probably do something a tad more productive if I had that kinda free ride - like try to program my own game or go for more bike rides or travel more.All I can think of here is undiagnosed mental health issues, even if he can look forward to a fat inheritance to tide him over until his time comes. You don't reach this level of escapism without something having broken along the way.
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I have a good friend that's like that. He's 35, has a masters in comp sci and lives with his parents. I always make fun of him for making bad life choices. One time a few weeks ago I told him he was a victim of bad life choices and he just nodded and changed the subject. After a while he asked me about my day and I was like "oh man, it sucked. I had meetings starting at 6am with offshore and that was after the 10pm meeting I had with them the night before, then I had a slew of shitty meetings and one of my projects is on fire." And he replied, "I woke up at 9, made some breakfast and played games until lunch time, after that I read a while. It seems to me I'm not the one that's made bad life choices."
I was like :brazilcry
I have a good friend that's like that. He's 35, has a masters in comp sci and lives with his parents. I always make fun of him for making bad life choices. One time a few weeks ago I told him he was a victim of bad life choices and he just nodded and changed the subject. After a while he asked me about my day and I was like "oh man, it sucked. I had meetings starting at 6am with offshore and that was after the 10pm meeting I had with them the night before, then I had a slew of shitty meetings and one of my projects is on fire." And he replied, "I woke up at 9, made some breakfast and played games until lunch time, after that I read a while. It seems to me I'm not the one that's made bad life choices."(http://i.imgur.com/SqwZEmF.png)
I was like :brazilcry
I'm OK with a basic income as long as there is a work requirement.
The stay at home mom has purpose. I don't think guys have that choice in life in the same way though. Not in any comparable way. This, of course, is under the view of heterosexuality.
Da fuq
Tinkering with cars at home is a very very popular hobby but the auto shop techs I know say their job is very repetitive even though they obviously like cars. The reason being that there's very little variation when something goes wrong with a car so you're doing the same repairs over and over.
Unless you're lucky enough to work at a custom car shop or something but that's a really small minority. My point is people lose all passion for something when you take away all the critical thinking and creativity and trim it down to just focusing on the service being cheap and fast.
That why I'm saying people will still work for the satisfaction of learning and developing themselves but only on the problems machines can't do (ie: give the robots the oil/brake jobs).
With the global population explosion, outsourcing, and now automation, we're probably looking at a situation in the not too distant future where there will legit be more people than actual work that needs doing. I'd rather give people a guaranteed minimum income than have them dig holes and fill them back up out of some absurd notion of "contributing."
Or when I was unemployed for a few months and I would play Civ V for 40 hours a week. My ex-wife specifically mentioned Civ V when she told me she wanted a divorce—and I hadn't played it in months.So you made the right decision and started a marathon game immediately right?
Well we can also dig & fill holes to curb the population explosion and that would certainly contribute. :dogewoah woah, way to completely gloss over the whole "mass graves" part of this