Re:Why Some Men Don't Work: Video Games Have Gotten Really Good
by petra on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:35PM
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YouTube, although marketed as a great entrepreneurship channel, is nothing of this sort, and the stats tell that story , that only a rare few can make a living out of it.
And this is part of a larger "scam" being perpetuated currently, that today is a golden age of entrepreneurship and that's the job of the future , mostly because of all kinds of platforms(like Amazon fulfillment, t-shirt printing, etc) open so many new opportunities for entrepreneurship.
While the stats tell a different story , that there's a decline in entrepreneurship, and if you look carefully, you'll see how platforms actually suck the core out of many small businesses and leave them to run empty shells, businesses largely without a competitive advantage or value creation.
Re:Why Some Men Don't Work: Video Games Have Gotten Really Good
by CM30 on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @02:52PM
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Well that's actually a good point. The 'sharing economy' could arguably be better described as the 'work for free so some millionaire gets richer' economy. Or the 'low paid contractor' economy.
Honestly, the reason some people out of work play video games are more likely one of the following:
1. They're fun and they reduce the tedium of everyday life. Others could do the same thing with sports, tabletop games, chess, TV shows and movies, etc. There's no practical difference between an unemployed guy playing video games all day and the same person watching TV all day or playing golf all day. It's merely a way to take your mind off all the boredom while looking for a job.
2. Playing games can in theory be a way out of poverty, at least in today's internet social media driven world. How many of these people have YouTube channels or popular presences online? If you have no other practical options, then trying to make money through video game Let's Plays and YouTube monetisation seems like a decent last resort.
And yes, the job market is broken too. Maybe if companies stopped trying to look only for people with every skill and piece of expertise needed in advance and were willing to train people to do jobs, we might have less people unemployed at the moment. Heck, maybe the New York Times could help here. Stop doing the common media thing of mostly hiring upper class college graduates from privileged families (which seems to be a trend at the moment) and start hiring people who want to work rather than those who whine about how poor people act in internet editorials.