Seems its hard to to trace causation either way. It could be that people play video games to escape the tedium of being un- or under-employed, rather than are unemployed because they play video games instead of seeking work.
Please, get with the program!
But they will be regarded as genius chess masters.
On the other hand, with our surplus of resources, its no wonder a percentage of our people can afford to do nothing but play games.
Superficially both resource arguments look like exact opposites, but I don't think that they are really conflicting.