Tag: games

  • Modern child labor: not in a factory, but in a computer game?

    Here’s a post that’s worth reading, by Steven Poole: http://stevenpoole.net/trigger-happy/working-for-the-man/ .   Rather off-topic for this blog, and raises more questions than answers, but interesting.  It asks “Why are video games so much like work?” — they do indeed have similarities to repetitive assembly-line jobs.  I’ve watched my kids click thousands of times, breaking simulated rocks, […]