If Bloomberg television quoted his views correctly today, then a well known academic economist they cite explains that we have full employment, even though the labor participation is so low, because the video games available to consumers have gotten so good that people would prefer to stay at home and play them rather than work. And so they don't.

If the games were not so good, then people would get bored staying at home and would go to work. It is just a rational actor's choice. 

Since when is work, for the majority of people at least, an optional choice for one type of pleasure and entertainment compared to others? Let's see, shall I go to the movies, go fishing, or go to work today?

How many moons are there on this guy's planet. What a knucklehead application of economic models and ideological stereotypes that makes reality into a kindergarten caricature.

Of course people would rather do whatever they wanted if they had the choice, rather than work at something that someone else gives them to do, especially for the 90% whose jobs are tedious and repetitious? 

Why is it that the stooges of the moneyed interests always run to monetary economic models to examine the choices of their masters, but do not seem to be able to apply them to the people who do the day to day worker? If anyone might propose something that would diminish the enormous incomes of their patrons by a few percent, they have a holy conniption fit about these 'job creators' being discouraged about building businesses. 

Perhaps they don't like video games, and would rather act out their violence and carnage in the real world?

Perhaps Mr. Economist should consider the time honored, common sense proposition that people are reluctant to take menial shit jobs for poverty wages.

And that more people would be working if there were more jobs that paid living wages? How much anecdotal information about people staying in long lines over night for decent jobs can they ignore in their stereotypical models?

When people say, I cannot attract good talent for jobs, do they ever consider raising the pay to attract a better caliber of candidate? Oh no, the free market only works from the top down.

What a world we have, that has such creatures in it.

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