The Economist posted an interesting article about recent economic research that suggests high-quality video games are "contributing to a decline in work among young people, and especially young men."
Using data from 2000 and 2015, they found the employment rate between men in their 20s without a college education dropped ten percentage points, from 82% to 72%.
Such men often live at their parents
I feel like they fail to make any case for why the correlation wouldn't operate in the opposite direction. High unemployment and rising housing prices contributing to a bunch of folks who don't have any better escape from reality than video games...