World of Warcraft Players Outnumber US Farmers
- Scribbled on October 24th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Editorial Content, Interviews, MMO, PC, WTF
In an article by Switched, they report:
According to the piece at Kung Fu Monkey, which pulled numbers from the USDA, two million Americans work on farms or ranches. Compare that to the three million computer and mathematical scientists in the U.S., or the four million American ‘World of Warcraft‘ players, and you see that perhaps it’s time for a bit of a shift in our perceptions of just what a “real” American is. That’s not to say, of course, that Farmers are lame and should be ignored by the media, but when President Bush says he’s going down to his ranch Texas to “stay in touch with real Americans” while working with Indian leaders to send more tech jobs off-shore, it’s hard not to think of him as more than a little off-base.
Of course, this has more to do with the shrinking population of the American farmer than the growing World of Warcraft population. Ironically, there’s too many gold farmers in WoW.
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