Playing games is not an accomplishment: How video games make you retarded.

[taxalot]

Revolting is a lot of work and usually makes your country in a worse state than it was before. It is no wonder people prefer video games.

 

[Damned Registrations]

That's just a crock of shit though. Nobody sells their house to go travelling around the world. It's not a real option. And realistically, you could get by with pretty much no money at all and travel anywhere on your continent by foot.

Having a high paying career means you have to stay with that career and make sacrifices for it for your entire life or you lose it. Having a job at the local burger joint means you can punch your boss in the face, key his car, and get another job a week later without losing anything. You can go binge drinking and call in sick for work when you're obviously hungover. People don't become happy based on some objective standard of living. Their happiness is based subjectively on what they've become accustomed to. If you go to school for 8 years to become a lawyer, then work at that for another 10 years, quitting your job and working at the burger joint isn't really an option. No more than giving up your current life to move to Rwanda and work as a missionary.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Money gives you options. No money = no options.

The rationale is flawed because of the effort it takes to acquire money, which gives one no options except devoting oneself to earn more money. Considering everything that is actually of worth is beyond the material, living in a culture which focuses entirely on material success and nothing else, escapism can be used as an analgesic. Its not healthy, but its not like anybody has proposed a valid substitute.

 

[Captain Shrek]

Money gives you options. No money = no options.

The rationale is flawed because of the effort it takes to acquire money, which gives one no options except devoting oneself to earn more money. Considering everything that is actually of worth is beyond the material, living in a culture which focuses entirely on material success and nothing else, escapism can be used as an analgesic. Its not healthy, but its not like anybody has proposed a valid substitute.

Tell me LS. Do you really need to earn THAT much money? Are you really interested in things only a Million dollars can buy?

 

[Rpgsaurus Rex]

Money gives you options. No money = no options.

The rationale is flawed because of the effort it takes to acquire money, which gives one no options except devoting oneself to earn more money.

You do realize most rich people have hobbies?

 

[mondblut]

Better to fail as a genius than to succeed as a kotick or some other shitstain.

Better for whom?

The rest of humanity, sure. For the self, I'd rather be a shitstain who bleeds the rest of the world dry to fund his latest exotic hobby. Being universally hated is just a cherry on top

 

[Rpgsaurus Rex]

It's probably not a yota better for humanity either if you *fail* as a genius.

 

[PorkaMorka]

Revolting is a lot of work and usually makes your country in a worse state than it was before. It is no wonder people prefer video games.

Revolution is only one option. There are a lot of less drastic options. Like standing up for yourselves. Islamic radicals are once again a good example. In Western countries, they are not yet involved in violent revolution. But they are actively engaged in asserting themselves, advocating their interests and gaining power. They aren't the only group that does this, they're just an uncontroversial example.

Over time the groups that waste less of their time on video games and spectator sports will gain power at the expense of those who retreat into these leisure activities. For your enemies, the quest for power isn't just a day job. It's an avocation as well.