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This. The same people that can be addicted to games may have the potential to be addicted to Chess in other time periods.

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.

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Also, with our constrained resources, no wonder a percentage can only afford to play video games (as opposed to other pastimes that require significantly more space, transportation and equipment).

Superficially both resource arguments look like exact opposites, but I don't think that they are really conflicting.

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