4. World of Warcraft
If you’re a gamer you’re going to wish this was you. If you’re not a gamer you are going to wonder what the hell was the Federal Government thinking. Basically, they paid a lot of money so a bunch of researchers could play video games all day. How much you ask? Around $3 million.
That money went to the University of California at Irvine so they could do ‘video game research’ to study this emerging form of communication. Their conclusion? Playing video games helps ‘organizations collaborate and compete more effectively in the global marketplace’. So, they spent $3 million of taxpayer money to come to the conclusion ‘playing video games together is fun’.
