Do computer games help the unemployed, but not in a good way?
Friends in competition playing games console.
From 2000 and 2015, the employment rate for men in their 20s without a college education dropped ten percentage points, from 82% to 72%.
Such men often live at their parents’ homes and tend not to marry at the same rate as their peers. They, do, on the other hand, play video games.
For each hour less the group spent in work, time spent at leisure activities rose about an hour, and 75% of the increased leisure time was accounted for by gaming.
Over the same period games became far more graphically and narratively complex, more social and, relative to other luxury items, more affordable.
It would not be surprising if the satisfaction provided by such games kept some people from pursuing careers as aggressively as they otherwise might.
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