Leisure and the loss of labor supply of young men

Since video games already cause most of violence and other crime, they are easy to blame for this too. It can't be that unemployed bored young men just want to do something fun with all their free time. I haven't yet met anyone who refuses to work because they need to game all day, but plenty of people who have to work to afford keeping their gaming PC up to date. Also people who aren't working because of some issue or other, who don't have anything better to do than gaming.

I wonder when will we see a first study that estimates the relation between ideologies hostile to men gaining publicity in media and young men losing any purpose in life. If they get told over and over that they are the cause of all problems in the world, why would they even bother to try to succeed in life, since that apparently makes things worse for everyone.

I'll just drop this here;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7meE0LA0Gk

I think it's probably true. Might be silly to say this on a gaming forum, but that's probably the case.
Read the second link and you'll see that while video gaming is there, it also mentions "other recreational computer
activities.". So watching Youtube, Netflix, browsing Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, 4Chan, Steamgifts.

The idea that we live in a time where entertainment is more available than ever before, freedom is more present ever before, financial security is more firm than ever before isn't some crazy wild thing.

Of course, there are most definitely other reasons why manpower has lowered over time. The workaholic status is no longer as much of a badge of honor. People are encouraged to no longer work at a place they dislike. Even I'm being fed this bullshit as I'm in university. "Only take what satisfies you" while also saying "You're deserving of so much more". I find myself being warped by that sensibility way too often as well.

People are inherently lazy. You enhance their access to be lazy and they'll take it. As per usual, this isn't a blanket statement. I'm just saying that it definitely affects people a lot. Back then you had cable TV, but it was expensive to upkeep and you'd get bored quickly because it was a set schedule. Now you buy 4 games for a dollar, play them when you want and as much as you want, spending around 50 hours beating them all. We live in a loop of consuming media and accumulating more of it. It's just that 15 years ago you'd accumulate the entertainment slower than you would consume it, motivating you to actually get a job and work to afford more stuff or to just pass the time to get more of it.

If you want to argue against that point, then first think if you've recently bingewatched a show or played a game for a longer period than you should've. It's easy to binge now.

There's no reason to not waste time and not work. Our culture promotes our laziness indirectly by not forcing us to go and work wherever we need to to just get money, our culture also supports the idea that kids should live with their parents until they're much older because the older generations know that it's hard to have to start from nothing. Our media entangles us in its wonders daily and we always fall for it. No wonder we don't want to work as much. There's no point in pretending that online leisurely activities are this perfect thing. People who get offended by their hobby being bad tend to be people who know that they spend too much time with it and are insecure. It's otherwise hard to ignore simple facts.

And I say that as a person that could've done his coursework a few days ahead of time, but I'm instead procrastinating, playing Payday 2, watching Arrowverse shows to catch up with the seasons and typing this very comment.

But lets not mention the amount of companies that require you to have 10 years of experience (even when you just finished your degree..) or not giving you the chance if you don't got the right papers, jobs that are going to be taken over by drones, the workpressure. etc etc.
Sure there might a bunch because of videogames, but it isn't just the cause of it all.
Then again it's america we are talking about so i have no idea about there, just here, but i know 1 guy there working his ass off at 60 hours a week and he needs more coworkers to get some pressure off but the company isn't really threating their employees okay and why alot left.

As with many things in life things are often not just that black or white.

Believe me when i say there won't even be enough jobs for the next generation or maybe the one after it.

People would rather play than work, imagine that.

I haven't read the articles, but the title suggests this only affects men. I obviously have to disagree.

What?! People don't want to work minimum wage jobs to fatten the wallets of old, white men?! BLASPHEMY!
Get me my whip Margaret! I'm gonna whip some work ethic in those lazy slacks. But first let me enjoy my cigar and whiskey while reading the newspaper. In the meantime I'm making more money from my investments than those poor slobs make in a year on minimum wage.
The nerve of those people!

Of course. It's never about the lack of decent jobs, it's always about videogames.

mmm. . .instant gratification. can't beat that taste! I relish its seductive deliciousness wholeheartedly!