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Jul 26, 2020
2:24:19pm
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Successful tech guy bashes Joe Rogan and defends playing video games
I see merits in both sides of the argument here. It starts with this Joe Rogan clip. (Warning, swear word from Rogan)

https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1287374826999615488

Then David Heinmeier Hansson, a very successful tech entrepreneur (creator of Ruby on Rails, cofounder & CTO at Basecamp, best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver), responds with a series of tweets where he defends playing video games instead of chasing the mighty dollar (Swear words edited out with ***):

“American ideology distilled: Anything that's not about building a business and "driving a Mercedes" gets filed under a "waste of time", even when it's even "*** fun". Ugh.”

“You're not wasting your time when you play a fun game. Or read an interesting novel. Or go for *** walk without aspirations of becoming the speed walk king of instagram, raking up those endorsement deals, and *** CRUSHING THE SPEED WALK COMPETITION.”

“If you want to talk about addiction in American, we should talk about the addiction to money, building a business, driving a *** Mercedes. Far more lives are ruined chasing that hedonic treadmill than by those who end up playing too many video games.”

“That does not mean that playing video games for 16 hours a day/every day of the week/every week of the month is healthy either, duh. There are people who get trapped in that. But it's a tiny minority to those trapped chasing this American materialism.”

“I've been playing video games extensively since age 5. Some of my happiest memories were spent playing games. Some of my closest friendships developed while playing games. And just this morning, our family squad won in Fortnite and it's still the highlight of the day 😄❤️”

“VIDEO GAMES ARE GOOD. America would be a better place if this obsession with accomplishments, turning your hobby into a franchise, and the evils of "wasting time" took a rest while you grabbed the controller.”
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