We are slaves, but in a widely interpret-able sense such in that we are slaves to our desires or materialism. That can be overcome to a degree, although I understand not wanting to and you shouldn't have to.

What I'm referring to is Justin's wording and how it implies we are working-class slaves to serve societies needs rather than our own first. Like, I wish your situation was better, but I'm glad you have something to fall back on that keeps ya truckin' another day ya know? It feels like Justin expects you to reduce gaming and work more because "the numbers". We're humans! We have needs!

Like fuck, I re-read the limited article and he's actually saying he's interpreting one of his own sources:

... the survey doesn't differentiate between electronic and non-electronic games, but most researchers assume it's chiefly the former...

What researchers? It's never cited. (or is it..?) This reads like rhetoric stink meant to farm anxiety and outrage from out-of-touch, financially-invested old farts, but again I can't even read the article and clicking anywhere on web.archive causes the entire page to disappear q.q