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!?
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Research Paper -
http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/maguiar/files/leisure-luxuries-labor-june-2017.pdfFortune -
http://fortune.com/2017/07/16/video-games-users-men/Refuting the Paper -
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