Young Men Playing Video Games Instead Of Finding Jobs

Uther said:
lol I think that was my sons plan when he left sixth form, a leaflet for a new McD's drive through came through the letterbox (makes a change from poop) and I told him to get off his arse and go and get a job.
He's a manager there now :p
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great stuff :)
 
I guess this could be a good solution for the supposed mass unemployment we're going to get when "Robots steal our Jerbs!!!" - all the plebs can be pacified with more TV content than ever before and more games than they'll even be able to get through in a lifetime.
 
There's no doubt that modern video games are significantly more psychologically manipulating than older generations, and the impact will only get stronger as they become ever more immersive. The problem is exacerbated by game design trending towards rewarding all players for little investment. Ultimately, there's a lot of young adults out there who have experienced the alluring rewards of a digital world much more prominently than the rewards from real life. As with most forms of entertainment, gaming can be a healthy escape, the danger is with those who choose to escape for too long.
 
Ayahuasca said:
<SNIP>

I know there's the obvious conclusion like employment for people without a college degree is likely going to be extremely unrewarding.

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What a ludicrous thing to write! With the number of youngsters sat on some useless degree, or in the process of getting one that will make no furtherance to their job prospects, it's even more sweeping and ridiculous. If schools career advisers stopped pretending every pupil in front of them is a budding Einstein, or Jacob Rees-Mogg and told them to pursue a trade more fitting to their social and mental capacities there would perhaps be less frustrated and disaffected young people baffled by why the country isn't crying out for their self perceived talents.
 
Rotty said:
nothing that's not blatantly obvious

and then they all complain how they can't get on housing ladder etc etc
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WTF? Let me guess, you're a middle aged man or older who hasn't faced the same crippling issues the younger generation has in regard to housing?

(I'm several rungs up the ladder before folk assume I'm a young man complaining about not being able to get on the ladder).
 
Chris Wilson said:
What a ludicrous thing to write! With the number of youngsters sat on some useless degree, or in the process of getting one that will make no furtherance to their job prospects, it's even more sweeping and ridiculous. If schools career advisers stopped pretending every pupil in front of them is a budding Einstein, or Jacob Rees-Mogg and told them to pursue a trade more fitting to their social and mental capacities there would perhaps be less frustrated and disaffected young people baffled by why the country isn't crying out for their self perceived talents.
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very true
 
gord said:
There's no doubt that modern video games are significantly more psychologically manipulating than older generations, and the impact will only get stronger as they become ever more immersive. The problem is exacerbated by game design trending towards rewarding all players for little investment. Ultimately, there's a lot of young adults out there who have experienced the alluring rewards of a digital world much more prominently than the rewards from real life. As with most forms of entertainment, gaming can be a healthy escape, the danger is with those who choose to escape for too long.
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Agreed

I'm a fairy hardcore gamer - Own a decent PC, PS4 Pro, Switch etc.

But being a company director, having a family etc means I don't really have a great deal of time to play games. This time of year is particularly bad because there's so many games I want but time is precious so I have to chose wisely.
 
Hellsmk2 said:
WTF? Let me guess, you're a middle aged man or older who hasn't faced the same crippling issues the younger generation has in regard to housing?

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or I'm someone who has seen the benefits of getting off his backside and working hard
 
Avenged7Fold said:
I think these people have neither suffered the reality check required or benefited from how work can expand your life. Staying in and playing games all day may be good, but it will get boring and life will feel dull and hollow.

Working, even for a job that is not necessarily fulfilling by itself, is fulfilling in other ways. Just having social interaction with colleagues is a huge plus, even if they are nothing like you (sometimes especially so), the freedom you get from earning a bit of dosh or a sense of some control if you need the dosh to pay for living. Working even a bad job has its benefits and helps to shape teenagers into more rounded adults.

Now you got through school and college, being told that you need to be ambitious, do what you want to do and that anything is possible but most teenagers don't know what to do and so it hard to generate ambition and motivation. Those who get a taste of work life know the rewards it can bring and that is enough for them to get them into work in the morning.
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My God, I am going to have to say I am in 100% agreement with you! :) I need a lie down, that was painful.....My fingers are burning ;)
 
This month was the first time I've actually bought a new game since Witcher 3. There just hasn't been any worth buying. Most modern games are easy and boring (AAA ones at least)

But what I do see is a gambling addition to things like loot boxes etc. It's about time it was regulated and licenced as gambling, because it is.
 
Rotty said:
or I'm someone who has seen the benefits of getting off his backside and working hard
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How nice for you.

I know plenty of folk who "had the benefits of getting off their backside and working hard" who have absolutely ZERO chance of bettering themselves in the current climate. It's ok though, they have folk who sit on a pedestal who haven't had the same problems telling them they're lazy and doing it wrong. I await your response about how you had it difficult and had to work exceptionally hard to get where you are, without acknowledging any benefits or luck you had along the way.

I've not read the linked article, but your sweeping generalisation of a response that does not take into account the current climate is depressing.
 
Hellsmk2 said:
WTF? Let me guess, you're a middle aged man or older who hasn't faced the same crippling issues the younger generation has in regard to housing?

(I'm several rungs up the ladder before folk assume I'm a young man complaining about not being able to get on the ladder).
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Much of the UK market housing shortage is immigration driven, yet youngsters seem the most vocal in supporting unregulated immigration, or extraordinarily generous immigration laws.
 
Hellsmk2 said:
How nice for you.

I know plenty of folk who "had the benefits of getting off their backside and working hard" who have absolutely ZERO chance of bettering themselves in the current climate. It's ok though, they have folk who sit on a pedestal who haven't had the same problems telling them they're lazy and doing it wrong. I await your response about how you had it difficult and had to work exceptionally hard to get where you are, without acknowledging any benefits or luck you had along the way.

I've not read the linked article, but your sweeping generalisation of a response that does not take into account the current climate is depressing.
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it may be bad in some areas but in a lot it isn't

and if I have had any benefits or luck I would like to know what they are
 
Chris Wilson said:
What a ludicrous thing to write! With the number of youngsters sat on some useless degree, or in the process of getting one that will make no furtherance to their job prospects, it's even more sweeping and ridiculous. If schools career advisers stopped pretending every pupil in front of them is a budding Einstein, or Jacob Rees-Mogg and told them to pursue a trade more fitting to their social and mental capacities there would perhaps be less frustrated and disaffected young people baffled by why the country isn't crying out for their self perceived talents.
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I don't think it's ludicrous at all to be honest, job satisfaction levels even for those with a worthwhile degree or in skilled employment is rather poor so I can't see how it can be that rewarding for unskilled people, the end of your post actually seems to demonstrate with why this behaviour is occuring.
 
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