At first I thought I was reading about some evil corporation. When I learned it was a game, I laughed but immediately reconsidered.
My problem with games -- and corporate farming for that matter -- is that they create unrealistic expectations for people and makes the real life experience so much more difficult for them.
I wanted to make a post on my Hunger Games comm asking the other members if they thought they could cope in the environment described as District 12 but the other mod felt this was too inflammatory. The point I wanted to make was that spoiled Americans could most definitely not survive in that society. Accustomed to having what they want when they want it (and being able to pay for it with the cheap foreign labor that has permitted them their opulent lifestyle), they are literally not fit to survive hardship.
And games such as these are as much symptomatic as causal.
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At first I thought I was reading about some evil corporation. When I learned it was a game, I laughed but immediately reconsidered.
My problem with games -- and corporate farming for that matter -- is that they create unrealistic expectations for people and makes the real life experience so much more difficult for them.
I wanted to make a post on my Hunger Games comm asking the other members if they thought they could cope in the environment described as District 12 but the other mod felt this was too inflammatory. The point I wanted to make was that spoiled Americans could most definitely not survive in that society. Accustomed to having what they want when they want it (and being able to pay for it with the cheap foreign labor that has permitted them their opulent lifestyle), they are literally not fit to survive hardship.
And games such as these are as much symptomatic as causal.