Young Men Playing Video Games Instead Of Finding Jobs

FortuitousFluke said:
Is it not a bit depressing that kids in high school now have to focus the majority of their time and effort on setting themselves up so that they can have a prosperous life in 20 years time?
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It's always been that way, I mean come on we have all been there. Crap jobs crap pay, too many distractions, you have to grow up and fend for yourself. I
 
Pipe & Slippers said:
One thing I always seem to be discussing with friends is that kids never expect to suffer a dip in material circumstances. When they are living at home they enjoy a very high standard of living because they are benefitting from 30 years of their parents labour, and they can't envisage their standard of living dropping

When I left home for Uni I expected to be substantially poorer, and I was

What shocked me was when I started work, I was even worse off, and the reality was that it wasn't until I was well into my 30's that the car insurance bill (or any other chunky cost) dropping on the mat wasn't a financial disaster

The kids I know in late teens/early 20's all seem to expect to eat out at least twice a week, in addition to clubbing nights and weekends away - blimey, I can't afford that and I have a very decent job!

Looping it back to the OP, they can't afford the lifestyle they want if they go out to work, but if they stay at home they have most everything they want, esp if they have soft parents (+ wifi)

These guys are living in the present and not looking forward to any future, because it's all too difficult and they cba, and in a way, who can blame them?
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Exactly!
 
Dis86 said:
You're missing the point that we already have more than enough houses. Yes, the issue is the price but building more clearly isn't changing the price when those building them or who own them can afford for them to sit empty.
We don't need more houses.
We need houses people can afford.
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not really - read the article, a lot of those are second homes and therefore not even available to buy.
Actual available housing is at an all time low.
 
aardvark said:
not really - read the article, a lot of those are second homes and therefore not even available to buy.
Actual available housing is at an all time low.
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Yes but it's not about what's available. It's about what's ultimately there. We shouldn't have homes standing empty when there's a 'shortage'.
 
The "I'm entitled to" generation ********* looking for someone else to work, to get money to then look after them, instead of themselves.
 
LabR@t said:
It's always been that way, I mean come on we have all been there. Crap jobs crap pay, too many distractions, you have to grow up and fend for yourself. I
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I get that and you know what, aged 18+ get your head down and get on with it son, maybe to an extent 16+, but I believe highschool starts at 14 in America, I'm not a father but it makes me slightly sad that if my hypothetical kids grew up there they'd be worrying about taking on electives not because they want to but because they have to, or studying until 2am, or feeling obliged to do x,y,or z because otherwise they won't be deemed good enough to have a future.

I'm not denying that this is the way the world is going, but it's not something I ever had to worry about as a kid and it disappoints me that the youth of today are having to waste their childhoods fighting for advancement.
 
Just wait until VR properly takes off and we've got some sort of Vanilla Sky situation where you can choose to live permanently in a virtual world. I'd be very tempted.
 
Tuppy_Glossop said:
Perpetual growth is impossible. Resources are pressured. Robots are coming. It's only going to get harder for people to be seen as good value to a company.
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People have made the same argument since the dawn of time, advancement brings access to new resources and greater levels of efficiency. Obviously perpetual growth is impossible but with the right advances growth sustained for a period that may as well be perpetual probably isn't. Of course a couple of unfortunate misteps and it all comes tumbling down like a stack of cards, the key is to advance inline with growth.
 
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
I think some kids just don't know what to do with their lives when they leave school/college/whatever and need a bit of a push.
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Excellent parenting!
 
At least they're doing what makes them happy, which is more than can be said for a huge proportion of people working a 9-5 office job for the sake of simply earning money and not a lot else. Then there's the ones earning a fortune but with no time to spend it until they're retired and their life's mostly passed. There's far too many people who just do the normal.
 
Tuppy_Glossop said:
Perpetual growth is impossible. Resources are pressured. Robots are coming. It's only going to get harder for people to be seen as good value to a company.
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not so sure about that, while some physical resources are constrained that in itself doesn't necessarily constrain growth in economic terms... sure the Earth will eventually crash into the Sun etc..etc. but actual real world resources or lack of don't necessarily constrain growth over say the next few decades
 
dowie said:
not so sure about that, while some physical resources are constrained that in itself doesn't necessarily constrain growth in economic terms... sure the Earth will eventually crash into the Sun etc..etc. but actual real world resources or lack of don't necessarily constrain growth over say the next few decades
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It's almost as if many resources can be reused...and others such as human intellect are infinite (just like stupidity...).
 
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