How much more productive would society be without video games

Title say it all.

Not much more than it already is I presume. :/

Depends what people did instead.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Depends what people did instead.

Originally posted by victreebelvictr
Pornagraphy sites, for kids.

Mmm. Then no, probably not. Unless the ad revenue was substantial.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Mmm. Then no, probably not. Unless the ad revenue was substantial.

It would be less productive

Gaming is an art form, so I don’t see what’s so bad about it.

We’d likely need a comprehensive study on it tbh. We don’t know how many would switch pace and become productive or just simply find another kind of hobby like television, books/comics, pen and paper RPGs and the like or go to things like competitive sports, etc.

Although I feel that there would be a net positive in the end.

a society that can't produce petscop or ps4 spidey is unquestionably inferior to our current one.

Well people who play games right now are pretty unproductive...maybe we should just pull a Japanese Trick and Nueter all Game Players.

Keep them from passing on their lazy genes.

Humans have been playing games and wasting time for ages.

About 10% more.

As productive as a society without alcohol.

Originally posted by BrolyBlack
Title say it all.

Originally posted by Rockydonovang
a society that can't produce petscop or ps4 spidey is unquestionably inferior to our current one.

I don't think there'd be a drastic change, tbh.

Looking into this further, some of the technologies that exist right now (high end GFX hardware, CGI technology, virtual reality, 3d rendering, etc) that have a lot of use in our real lives were either thought of or partially funded by video games.

So now that I think about it more, we may owe video games more than we think.

Comfort in and of itself isn't a bad thing, but something I've grown to notice is that in the comfortable modern era, the significance of certain virtues isn't as obvious to people as it would be in a time where their necessity was made more painstakingly apparent by a need for survival.

I'd just be jerking off instead.