[jemfinch]

And millions more waste atrocious amounts of time being unproductive--or worse, becoming addicted or going into debt.

Farmville abuses the social guilt that evolution built into our human nature to bring profit to Zynga. Do you really think its net contribution to society is positive because of your grandmother and people like her?

[skrebbel]

Oh my god!

There's people out there being unproductive!

If you really think that that's a problem, you must've had a terrible life.

[blub]

Slackers, not merely unproductive. And guess who has to pick up all the slack...

[achompas]

Who...you? The government?

Come on now. Let's not get sanctimonious about what people do with their time. It's their problem.

[EvilLook]

...or kill me

[smackfu]

Seems pretty much the same as television.

[blake8086]

Make something people want, but not too much?

[philwelch]

Some people want crack. That doesn't make crack dealers honorable professionals.

[wr1472]

Only two kinds of people call their customers "users"; drug dealers and software developers.

[dasil003]

Of course the only reason we deem them generally dishonorable is because the government declared cocaine illegal.

[philwelch]

That's not the only reason. Tobacco is legal, and people consider tobacco companies dishonorable.

[dasil003]

Because of what they did to deceive the public. The alcohol companies don't have the same problem.

[101010010101]

Nor does it make those who produce crack "talented".

The only drain is the one caused by Farmville itself. The one that the time goes down.