A group of academic researchers from Princeton and the University of Chicago have published a paper saying young Americans are playing more video games instead of working. It’s actually making unemployment fun and that is bad for the workforce. Is that true? Are video games taking over the world? Is this the end of civilisation as we know it!?
Watch the video and find out.
Hosts: Mike Williams and Gareth Evans
Script: Mike Williams
Editing: Liam McKelvey
Sources:
Research Paper – http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/maguiar/files/leisure-luxuries-labor-june-2017.pdf
Fortune – http://fortune.com/2017/07/16/video-games-users-men/
Refuting the Paper – https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-11/young-men-give-up-work-for-video-games-be-skeptical
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