The New York Times > Business > Your Money > Digital Domain: When Long Hours at a Video Game Stop Being Fun

The New York Times > Business > Your Money > Digital Domain: When Long Hours at a Video Game Stop Being Fun: "Charles Dickens himself would shudder, I should think, were he to see the way young adults are put to work in one semimodern corner of our economy. Gas lamps are long gone, and the air is free of soot. But you can't look at a place like Electronic Arts, the world's largest developer of entertainment software, and not think back to the early industrial age when a youthful work force was kept fully occupied during all waking hours to enrich a few elders."