Videogames and Computers Cause Lower Crime
1st January 2015
Lion of the Blogosphere has the solution.
Why have crime rates fallen so much during the last two decades?
I say that a major contributor is that teenagers are busy at home playing videogames, or using social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Teenagers at home addicted to videogames, computers and iPhones means that they are not out on the streets getting themselves into trouble.
This means that the government could help nudge crime even lower by providing free videogames and internet access to poor families.
This is the ‘circuses’ half of the ‘bread & circuses’ formula. Coupled with Food Stamps, it gives us the same solution that the Romans discovered 2,000 years ago. And look how it worked for them!