The first thing that comes to mind to do when you don't know what to do is play games. And for the goverment, this activity is perhaps the most suitable for it. After all, the player does not listen to opposition speeches and does not go to protests. He does not irritate others and if he does harm to someone, then only himself.
The game is interesting primarily as a rivalry with something or someone else. That even animales have it, allowing them to develop in the course of the evolutionary process, or at least just to survive in difficult conditions.
Now there is no need to search for food every day for a long time. And labor productivity in our time has reached such a high level that with one working person 99 people can not work.
Here, of course, it greatly depends on the state, but in free and democratic countries, as a rule, there is a non-working stratum of the population, and they often still receive assistance from the state.
In Common, more and more people in the world have the opportunity to sit at home and play games.
And computer games can satisfy almost any dreams of people by allowing them to become anyone and achieve anything.
That of course creates the problem of a person's departure from reality and the complexity of integration into society, where one has to compete with real people and not on the playground, but in harsh reality.
However, for the goverment, a person who plays is beneficial. It does not require much (bread and circuses).
Therefore, even in the prisons of some countries, games and even computer games are allowed, because in this way their inhabitants will less annoy the authorities.
The news that a Palestinian terrorist, sentenced in Israel to five life sentences, was strongly scandalized that he was not allowed to play PS, gave the author the impression that being in prison for a life sentence he can be absolutely happy, playing with video games.
Now in the next lockdowns in developed countries and by distributing money to residents there, we see an increase in the shares of companies producing computer games.
Of course, the poor usually play games. At least more long time they spend playing games than the rich. And money flows again from the poor, who pay for the games, to the rich.
The trend of spending more and more time playing games continues. And the question arises. is anyone going to do something about it?The trend of spending more and more time playing games continues. And the question arises. is anyone going to do something about it?
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