Playing video games could get you a better job

It seems like articles like this from BBC suffer from memory loss here and attempt to attract towards the survivorship bias in the Fortnite/PUGP tornaments to convince you that you can get a better job when playing games and not even mention the health risks that comes with playing video games all day long.

> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-39232620

The Nintendo Switch is at least trying to improve how we play games (The Wii was a step in the right direction in terms of improving our health) but these tournaments are really just encouraging unhealthiness in sitting down for too long for a live-stream / tournament for the 'chance' to earn viewers or money.

So, I do not think that it is worth playing video games for e-sports all day to get you a better job even if money was involved (As tens of thousands of teams are competing anyway). I would either use video-games as for training / assessment or relaxing purposes but not to do full time. Perhaps a better skill would be building AI bots to play games and may the best AI win.

Nice try Beeb, but HN can detect bullshit articles like this in nano-seconds.