Spending all day in front of the PC or TV instead of working?
New research conducted economists from Princeton, the University of Rochester and the University of Chicago has found that one of the biggest reasons young men are rejecting work is that they have a better alternative – living at home and enjoying video games.
As a result,”happiness has gone up for this group, despite employment percentages having fallen, and the percentage living with parents going up”.
“And that’s different than for any other group,” says the University of Chicago’s Erik Hurst, an economist at the Booth School of Business who helped lead the research.
Young men without college degrees have replaced 75 percent of the time they used to spend working with time on the computer, mostly playing video games, according to the study, which is based on the Census Bureau’s time-use surveys.
Before the recession, from 2004 to 2007, young, unemployed men without college degrees were spending 3.4 hours per week playing video games. By 2011 to 2014, that time had shot up to 8.6 hours per week on average.
Put simply, the fulfillment that comes from playing games is greater than working a low-paying, or studying in further education.
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This is absolutely a problem with lifestyle. I wish I could sit at home and play games all day but I have to work my ass off to pay for everything #ThanksZuma. My parents would definitely not pay for everything if I just sat and played games.
If you sit at home all day playing games and work seems like work, your parents are the ones to blame, if they stop paying for your stuff, youll soon realize how unhappy games can make you when your hungry or don’t have anything to wear while playing them