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Re:A link between video games and unemployment by s_kilk on Saturday June 03, 2017 @02:20PM (#14477658)
It's the logic of Late Capitalism: all problems and failings are those of the individual, never of the system.
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Re:A link between video games and unemployment by kbutler on Saturday June 03, 2017 @02:50PM (#14477827)
There's a pendulum swing - focusing on the problems of the system, and focusing on the problems of the individual.

In truth, there are problems both in the system and with individuals, and failings in each reinforce the other, and effective aspects of each also reinforce each other.

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Re:A link between video games and unemployment by quadrangle on Saturday June 03, 2017 @02:50PM (#14477825)
While that may indeed be the propaganda, blaming addicts for their addictions can be victim-blaming. Some of the rhetoric blames the video game companies more than the consumers…
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Re:A link between video games and unemployment by posterboy on Saturday June 03, 2017 @03:25PM (#14478004)
no, not if the addict's diction is directed ad everyone else's faults but his own. Of course I am bending the definition https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/addico#Latin
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