>As video games get better and job prospects worse, more young men are dropping out of the job market to spend their time in an alternate reality. Ryan Avent suspects this is the beginning of something big.
What's going on here? Why are men retreating into video games in masses?
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Men can't get jobs that allow for a middle class lifestyle so they bury themselves in addictive low effort habits to waste away in comfort.
>Good guys finish last.
No reason to contribute to a system designed to reward cheaters. Shit, vidya games actively punish them instead.
So the job market is being filled with stupid shitskins and women? Fuck yes, middle management positions for smart white males will be low hanging fruit within the decade :D
There's no reason for men to grow up. The world today is centered around women.
just like that nigger says.
its because we are poor and their is little social mobility.
>No job prospects
>Why are men not slaving away at jobs
Wow hard to think this one through huh
>have really good job and tons of disposable income
>still spend all my free time either playing vidya or on Sup Forums
Society BTFO
The brain don't give a fuck wat is (((real))) and what is simulated. It wants to be a free pioneer. Think Minecraft instead of (((Jewcraft))) i.e. corporate America slavery.
>thought about spending $1500 for a gaming PC
>it seems like a waste of money now
Esport are growing , i d rather play vidya and earn 2/3 k montlhy from esports than be a slavecuck like i am know .
faith_bian god
bro im considering 2k for a pc
getting underpaid to be overworked (even with trades)
the age of active income is over. passive entrepreneur income or bust.
found a fucking gold quote from the article
>David Mullings’s relationship with games is entirely different. He just got a job working for a hedge fund, after spending time volunteering for the Hillary Clinton campaign (in some games you can score more points than the opponent and still lose).
the author is a salty little fucker
This is because strong wymin are scared, a game developed by 2 fat nerds give more pleasure than they sore pussy.
Fuck society, i dont wanna contribute for a arrengement who think women are wonderfull and men are evil.
Pretty soon they'll give most of those do nothing faggot jobs to women. They're stinging to get them. I for one will applaud it. There's nothing worse than some faggot who thinks he's the big man when he doesn't do shit.
Being an adult has never been as harder to attain and never so risky for a male.
It's also clearly pretty boring.
What a shit excuse for a sorry life like yours
Video games aren't better than real life, they just have a understandable narrative and a worthwhile reward system. Give men something to believe in, give them brotherhood and treat them with respect.
It's quite obvious.
Back in the day men used to be respected for taking adult roles of a father and a professional. Today not only that benefit is gone but they're being attacked by the media, fatrhers are portrayed as dumb and workplaces are encouraged to hire women and non-whites instead. Not to mention that there's plennty of laws that make work and family enviroment potentially dealy for man.
>go get to pumping the global GDP slaves
Simply epic. Neo-liberals are more disgusting than communists, since they abuse arguments from both sides.
lol what a cunt
Electoral College points are literally like video game points. Votes would obviously be in game stats like DPS, Heals, its like bitching endlessly that you did 4 million more heals than your opponents but they still out damaged you and won anyway.
Nerf Trump
Someone teach this casual about diminishing returns. Shillary's 100 gorillion votes in California were worth as many electoral votes as if she won the state by 1%.
I wasted my life on vidya and regret it every day of my life. started PC gaming with games like dark forces 2, baldurs gate 2 and morrowind. and started online gaming when I was 7 years old with starcraft. this was in the days when there were 0 kids in PC gaming. dabbled in MMOs like SWG and Guild Wars when they were in their infancy but stuck to mostly fps. became obsessed with games like JKO and JKA for around 5 years. Xfire was still a thing back then. then orange box got released and Steam became a thing and I got sucked into HL2. dropped out of school, had no IRL friends, no real life experience. Last game I played was mount and blade and one day in 2013 I looked in the mirror and saw that vidya had gotten me literally nowhere in life. it's just escapism. I quit that day and never looked back. haven't played a game since, and just now am getting my life in order but it might be too late. I was playing vidya for at least 6 hours a day, every day from the age of 7 until the age of 20. I could have used that autism to master an instrument or learn a skill to better myself and society.
Moral of the story: if you have autism, don't waste it on vidya.
>choose raw deal
>or get comfy
This is literally the free market at work. People will always choose the better prospect.
you do the same only with pol and le orange man instead of anime and videogames
people are stepping out of life because videogames are more rewarding than life
>marry a woman
she divorces you and takes all your money
>go to college
get worthless degree in a no job market while kike professor tells you are problematic
>travel around the world
risk getting your head chopped off by innocent refugees and immigrants
videogames are safe, you know what you're getting, they're fun
they're the next evolution of TV just a safe outlet to waste time
once life gets more rewarding or the times require it people will grow up
I can't wait for gen Z to grow up, because from what I see, like 40% of these kids are going to be shut-in vidya playing neets when they're older, and the effect of that much young manpower out of the labour pool will decimate the world economy.
Hahahah
Blaming video games for the decline caused by female hypergamy and degeneracy.
This guy has it all really, not much to add
Same here brother.
I'm only going to spend big bucks for a pc once VR is good enough.
This.
Same my burgerbrother
It's the weekend. I just did it and I'm about to do it again:
Killing the shit out of some reeee'ing teenagers in an fps match, beats working 40-60 hours 5-6 days a week to make a barely middle class wage.
It's instantly gratifying.
Now say I wanted to "have a family", or "pay a mortgage" even "screw a hot chick"
I'd have to save up money, go to a gym, sit in classes for months to get through basic bitch general studies, blending in with lefty cucks all the while, working my ass off for hours at all those efforts, spend months courting some bitch whose body might satisfy for a decade or two until I'm dgaf age, and still take a risk I fail in the end.
All after a week of work that kicked my ass, leaving me tired af.
Or, I can sit here, type shit while eating a quick meal and go back to vidya and enjoying my weekend, and my too-fat girlfriend that occasionally fucks me.
. . .
I'll lift some weights I guess?
Dropped 2.5k for a few monitors, latest GPU / CPU and the rest.
No regrets. I value my PC more than my girlfriend. Fuck buying her a ring, how's that going to benefit ME?
Fight the libcucks.
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You know you could do all of this and still play plenty of vidya, right?
I'm an analyst making 6 figures working for a local investment firm, in a 3 years wonderful relationship and I still play plenty of vidya.
Well... games are better than life, honestly. Mostwomen are sluts and there's violent muslims everywhere, so any other hobby I could do would put me in contact with violent rape-monkeys.
He's basically admitting Hillary cheated and expected to be rewarded for it.
Stable, well-paying job opportunities are dwindling and modern women are self-absorbed cunts. There are no incentives for young men to start a career or family anymore.
Look I just want to be wanted and to have a chance. If we had a war with North Korea I would join and man up, heck after reading the diary of Gary Kildall I am up for joining the navy and getting to teach at the Naval academy and become an officer and do all these great things where they pay for it and I earn enough to start a business here. But the best I can do for now is drive hour to an interview for a printer tech job for 13.25 an hour. I have to degrees and nothing to hope for.
I don't see how video games are any worse than spending hours watching movies or TV. Oh wait its because only MEN play video games.
Video games are better than the alternative; extremism.
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As a man theres no point entering the job market. Men, probably instinctively, know that only women with "less" than them will ever want them. Given female employment and education, why bother?
Bro are you me?
Did I just type that Post?
I think I did but I'm not sure, it could've been me
It's like all the people from developed countries ITT don't realize they have several orders of magnitude better opportunities than someone like me, even.
All you can ever do is complain. Of course, if the immigrants come here and ask for free money, they should all be butchered, but it's okay for you not to do anything useful.
I don't know about women though, but I'm fairly sure that you don't either. It's not like women admit to being sluts, nor can you ever do reliable statistics about things people are prone to lie about (sex), so how do you know how many dicks they have?
>((((((((((The Economist))))))))))
>so how do you know how many dicks they have?
I believe its measured in miles now.
>I just want to be wanted
the feels are starting to become a bit too intense
I hope so. Shitskins don't work as a matter of principle, and white males won't work because the taxes would just go to screeching womyn and leeching niggers.
What about the girls? They play video games as well.
Honestly, I agree with you. I come from a blue collar background. However, I really like money and power. So I'll continue my road to faggotry if it means I get to become a captain of industry.
No you wouldn't, when you play a video game professionally you don't play other video games. You certainly don't enjoy playing the game. You just practice because you need to be good enough at it
and just like real sports you become more useless the older you get
I did basically everything you listed and learned how computers and networks function. Then I used this knowledge to leap ahead of my competition, who use the computer for Facebook and Microsoft Word, and landed an IT job.
You aren't unemployed because you play games, you're unemployed because you're a lazy social retard.
>grrrl gaymers
>What about the girls? They play video games as well.
Only whilst streaming and wearing a low cut shirt
>started PC gaming with games like dark forces 2, baldurs gate 2 and morrowind
>started
sometimes I think I'm getting too old for Sup Forums.
Keeping this thread alive
Gdamn i wanna fuck asian butterfaces.
Modern Society and feminism has destroyed most of the incentives that kept men from being wilful slaves to the corporations/state/Wife. Now marriage rates are falling across the developed world and white birth rates are at their lowest levels ever. What did (((they))) expect?
>As video games get better and job prospects worse, more young men are dropping out of the job market to spend their time in an alternate reality. Ryan Avent suspects this is the beginning of something big.
What's the point? I have no real skills apart from some general ones like cooking and fishing (which I'm not very good at). I haven't had the opportunity to learn anything else thanks to my shit public schooling. College is a waste of time as far as I'm concerned because some pajeet or chinaman will always win out to my resume. I have literally nothing else. Vidya is all I have to look forward to when I get home. I live in suburbia so I can't even escape into nature. All I can do is "go out on the town" but for what reason? With whom? For whom, honestly? It isn't just that I don't have any experiences outside of gaming but that I don't have and never had the opportunity to enjoy or try new experiences in the first place.
>inb4 teach yourself user
I don't have any drive or interest to. What would it go towards? My future seems bleak. I have nothing, I have nobody. My mum and dad don't really count, even though I love them to death. They're actually the only real reason I haven't made out with my .45 probably. I got too edgy, sorry.
>tfw chinese colony
Guys, serious problem here. I have been gaming nearly non-stop for about 16 years now. Day in day out, for about 18 hours a day. I just realized a few of my family members died when new pictures were added to my homes wall. What happened? I think I got ptsd from all the video games I played too cause whenever I stop playing them for extended periods of time i get really anxious. is there any sort of disability or welfare I can get for this type of ptsd? its really bad i feel like i was in a war or something...
Stop wasting your life on video games and actually do something anons.
Video games are as bad as porn for the male brain.
Do you have any idea how easy that is to say compared to actually doing it? What would you have me do instead user?
Women don't want to be women, society doesn't want men to be men.
Guys, serious problem here. I have been gaming nearly non-stop for about 16 years now. Day in day out, for about 18 hours a day. I just realized a few of my family members died when new pictures were added to my homes wall. What happened? I think I got ptsd from all the video games I played too cause whenever I stop playing them for extended periods of time i get really anxious. is there any sort of disability or welfare I can get for this type of ptsd? its really bad i feel like i was in a war or something... help
It's really hard, and I understand if you struggle. I quit cold turkey just over a year ago now, and I've only relapsed on my addiction to the electric jew once. The spare time used for studying and making friends and connections that was formerly dedicated to gaming made it all worth it.
...
>(((people))) who own The Economist literally, majorly helped push for both adults in a marriage to work full-time so giant corporations would make more money
>same (((people))) crying about men not caring for the new system that they themselves setup
>mfw all I do play shitpost, watch porn and play vidya
>mfw I'm rich because I spent my time in Uni learning business and investments, then just invested everything
>after that I bought a dozen properties to rent for a safe backup while I put money in random investments from time to time
>mfw 26 and already retired
Suck my dick. I'm already worth more than the retards who write these stupid articles by several times.
They just mad they spent their time in Liberal Arts degrees and other worthless degrees instead of becoming the Jew, and earning millions, because; "Hurr money can't buy happiness". kek suck my dick
>as video games get better
In which fucking universe?
Women will never be able to comprehend the disaster that they had a hand in causing. They blame anything but themselves for men not wanting to participate in society. Voting in pro-immigration, pro-welfare, pro-choice leaders to flood the market with disposable bodies after already flushing wages with gender parity in the workplace killed all value that a man could have had in society and destroy the family unit. Video games are an easy scapegoat because they're often a common uniting factor of the men who have "checked out" of society.
Just an hour ago they were talking about on TV here what chances do young people have to buy a house of their own. They need to get a loan for one but young people don't have stable careers anymore that are required for loans.
Basically the morons have put the entire society on high gear flux and destroyed stability which really doesn't help planning your life out.
Get a job? Obsolete, replaced or fired so you can't get raises.
Get a family? Wife gets bored or something and gets everything.
Get a big loan for a house? Job, family, interest rates or housing bust will ruin you.
And all this while 3rd world immigrants are literally shipped in by the millions to live the good life.
Fpbp
Being a huge loser that plays video games and jerks off to anime is actually must cooler than being a wageslave with no free time
The current one you poorfag
We need more leafposters like this.
Most top-level players started so young that its all theyve ever done, how does that equate to a loss of someone in the workplace?
I don't know man. As the fucking system gets more fucking bullshit don't expect everyone to commit. To be honest I play vidya as a stress relief after studying or doing something productive. I can see why men choose to play vidya instead of being productive. Society today is fucked and the government in a sense has replaced men with "muh welfare."
There's only so much bullshit a man can take before he says "Fuck this. I'm out".
I don't think pic was related. Pro gamers are actually economically productive because of what viewers do with their time and money.
Guys, serious problem here. I have been gaming nearly non-stop for about 16 years now. Day in day out, for about 18 hours a day. I just realized a few of my family members died when new pictures were added to my homes wall. What happened? I think I got ptsd from all the video games I played too cause whenever I stop playing them for extended periods of time i get really anxious. is there any sort of disability or welfare I can get for this type of ptsd? its really bad i feel like i was in a war or something... help
I always thought this pepe had an afro
>13.25 an hour
Jeez man
Being productive only contributes to the governments that want to destroy you anyway
Well said.
I wish we could go back to times where there was descent stability and you could get a job and stay there for 30 plus years. That's comfy asf.
(((They))) want you to give up. Don't seek comfort, social life and safety in gaming, don't fall for the gamingpill
Bull fucking shit, faggot.
I know the feel. Trying to get a summer job around here is hard. It's slightly easier in the countryside but in the city it's fucking dreadful. You need ex amount of expierence and etc etc. Like fuck me. Anybody can do a retail fucking job.
With women forcing men out of schools and work, it's the inevitable outcome. Like how women were before this "inversion" where women were stay-home mothers watching TV and eating bonbons or whatever in between caring for children - because motherhood and nurturing is how women are biologically wired. In this case, men retreated to staying home and playing video games (if they're not the outdoorsy types) because video games is a form of virtual competition or challenge, which is how the "indoor types" are wired - they maybe basement dwellers, but men are still men and men are competitive and being challenged. Also, both genders enjoy being preoccupied with something and entertainment is a preoccupation; in this case, men like the virtual competition/challenge as a form of entertainment while women like being motherly and be entertained to relax from the rigors of motherhood. The outdoorsy types of men (with no job) would probably get into other activities to be challenged, to compete, and to be entertained, yet won't cost a lot (or free) like some sports such as basketball (mostly applies to niggers). Some resort to crime to fulfill that need (also mostly applies to niggers). But I digress. With parents enabling young men to stay home and play video games all day, compared to parents of previous generations where they kicked out their children after a certain age, it's not surprising that many young men seek refuge of video games to not only fulfill biological needs but to also escape the harsh and new reality created by fucking feminists and Jews.
cheer up you could always fuck a horse and become a web sensation you fucking potato
Damn user , at least knit a sweater before you pop. Gotta try something new. Your problem actually looks pretty solvable from my perspective
there is nothing else for me
only job and vidya
Shut up you sheep fucker
I wish i could have 13,25 an hour
>better games
>better
Shit taste.
This is your
>demoralization is complete
They break you, then break you further by laying the blame on you for why you're broken