r/NEET - Who needs a job when you can post on Reddit?

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Aren't young housewives, trust fund kids, and guys who retire early technically NEETs?
I don't think "NEET" and "shutin"/"hikikomori"/whatever should be used interchangeably. Being a reproductively-successful, financially-independent NEET is a very based life goal.
If I could afford to be one right now I would definitely do it. Why work for the benefit of a system that hates you and wants you dead?
Reject the work vs basement dichotomy.
 
Aren't young housewives, trust fund kids, and guys who retire early technically NEETs?
No, NEET means youth or school aged and Not in Employment, Education, or Training. Someone who retires early is not a NEET, and being a housewife is an occupation.
Being a reproductively-successful, financially-independent NEET is a very based life goal.
That is what FIRE is all about: "The FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement is a lifestyle movement with the goal of gaining financial independence and retiring early."
There's a FIRE subreddit, which is all about people working their asses off - opposite of r/NEET.
 
lol fucking wagies

fucking wagies.jpg
 
No, NEET means youth or school aged and Not in Employment, Education, or Training. Someone who retires early is not a NEET
You don't have to be that young to be a NEET. The UK's government limits the classification to under-25s, and the Japanese government's definition extends it up to 34. Someone who becomes financially independent one way or another at a young age and exits the labor force can definitely meet the criteria for being a "NEET."
 
I don't think dole bludgers really fit the profile of the r/NEET.
Why not?

You know what, you're right. Unemployed bogans spend their days screeching at neighbours making the whole neighbourhood go to shit, but it's usually confined to a street

Neets on the other hand go online to screech because the whole world needs to care about their bullshit
 
That's basically what Christian monks were like in the Middle Ages. They were NEETs who had their basic needs fulfilled by their monastery and in exchange, they spent some of their time copying books. The rest of their time was largely spent on intellectual pursuits.
I'd argue that monks in the middle ages were the complete opposite of NEETS. Not only were they employed transcribing books, the monasteries were often the best place to receive an education. You'd be hard pressed to find a monk who was a complete drain on those around them.
 
real NEETs and hikikomoris in Japan would mock, laugh and be disgusted by American NEETs like this, since their lifestyle is a heck of a lot different and complex than random Reddit users complaining about not wanting to accomplish anything in society.
“Muh superior japanese NEETs disappointing their parents over 10000 trillion times”

fucking weebs man
 
Aren't young housewives, trust fund kids, and guys who retire early technically NEETs?
I don't think "NEET" and "shutin"/"hikikomori"/whatever should be used interchangeably. Being a reproductively-successful, financially-independent NEET is a very based life goal.
If I could afford to be one right now I would definitely do it. Why work for the benefit of a system that hates you and wants you dead?
Reject the work vs basement dichotomy.
So what you're saying is... I should find a way to work out of my basement?
 
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It's not surprising that NEETs are a more common occurrence with the ever-expanding welfare system of most Western countries, combined with the fact that a lot of people are ending up stuck in dead-end jobs thanks to the fact that businesses just realized they could just get left-wing governments to import masses of low-skilled immigrants to drive down the cost of labour. There's also the fact that many more jobs have either been automated or outsourced to third-world countries to save money. If UBI gets fully introduced in any Western country, expect the amount of NEETs to explode, as many people would rather live on less than spend 40 hours in a dead-end retail job.

That doesn't make those that embrace the NEET label and proudly consider themselves a net drain on society any less pathetic, though.
 
instead of them photoshopping 300 different soyjak reaction images?
So they even ruin the internet spaces where they pullulate. Neets are the most committed spammers i guess.


Not laid =/= unemployed loser

Laid =/= winner
Incel kvs and neets are two demographics that greatly overlap.

Aren't young housewives, trust fund kids, and guys who retire early technically NEETs?
I don't think "NEET" and "shutin"/"hikikomori"/whatever should be used interchangeably. Being a reproductively-successful, financially-independent NEET is a very based life goal.
If I could afford to be one right now I would definitely do it. Why work for the benefit of a system that hates you and wants you dead?
Reject the work vs basement dichotomy.
NEET just means not in education or work. Being financially independent without having to wageslave is a cool goal but you have to DO something to get there and if you are doing something you are not a NEET at least how i see it.

Someone on the dole on mooching from their family and not doing anything to change that is perpetually financially dependent and a NEET, someone who made a fortune or has passive income or royalties from previous work and decides to quit because they have enough is not a NEET, just retired.

I think the distinction is that needs are not in work on education but probably should and would if they weren't atrophied in some way, every time i've browsed neet forums is all a pity party because they have some diagnosed mental illness, depression, not being able to compete even for a fry cook job, etc. So is a sour grapes situation, they don't want to because they are constantly failing at it or they foresee failure before even trying so is becomes a cycle.

man you beat me to bringing up wizardchan. That place is something... enter at your own risk
Not every hikkikomori is a neet and viceversa, not every Neet is kissless virgin wizard and so on, but boy do all these overlap. Is all a big spiral of autism and depression to lurk around these places
 
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I'd argue that monks in the middle ages were the complete opposite of NEETS. Not only were they employed transcribing books, the monasteries were often the best place to receive an education. You'd be hard pressed to find a monk who was a complete drain on those around them.
I didn't intend to imply that they were a drain on society. As you mentioned, they were educators and played a crucial role in the preservation and dissemination of knowledge during a time period where universities hardly existed and weren't a fully developed concept.

No, NEET means youth or school aged and Not in Employment, Education, or Training. Someone who retires early is not a NEET, and being a housewife is an occupation.

That is what FIRE is all about: "The FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement is a lifestyle movement with the goal of gaining financial independence and retiring early."
There's a FIRE subreddit, which is all about people working their asses off - opposite of r/NEET.
Aren't young housewives, trust fund kids, and guys who retire early technically NEETs?
I don't think "NEET" and "shutin"/"hikikomori"/whatever should be used interchangeably. Being a reproductively-successful, financially-independent NEET is a very based life goal.
If I could afford to be one right now I would definitely do it. Why work for the benefit of a system that hates you and wants you dead?
Reject the work vs basement dichotomy.
I think the essence of being NEET boils down to a perpetual, voluntary lack of occupation. Pensioners aren't NEETs, retired FIRE people aren't NEETs, your stay at home mom is not a NEET (lol).
 
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Would society be better served if they were a smooth brain pump bitch or cashier at a gas station 30 hours a week instead of them photoshopping 300 different soyjak reaction images? Sure it’d better for them as people but we’d lose a lot of funny content.
If these memes are so valuable to society, then why don't meme makers get paid for it? Where are the John Cleeses or Lenny Bruces of memes?
 
Aren't young housewives, trust fund kids, and guys who retire early technically NEETs?
I don't think "NEET" and "shutin"/"hikikomori"/whatever should be used interchangeably. Being a reproductively-successful, financially-independent NEET is a very based life goal.
If I could afford to be one right now I would definitely do it. Why work for the benefit of a system that hates you and wants you dead?
Reject the work vs basement dichotomy.
I see your point, but I'd argue NEET is more of a mind set. I can' quite put it to words but it boils down to lethargic depressed young person who never left home and dosnt wish to better themselves unless in fantasy/ lives through characters in media. That's just my idea of a NEET, I would think those you mentioned arnt because they're not as socially inept as your average basement dweller. "Achieving" something isn the right way to put it, bu those people have something going for them, maybe the young mother didn't want that but she's something other than that 23 year old who spends all day on reddit responsible for nothing, I guess my idea of a NEET is an old kid, not quite a manchild but someone who does more or less what they did as a child into adulthood- minus required to go to school.
That's just my thoughts, I know NEET could be used pretty broadly
 
Aren't young housewives, trust fund kids, and guys who retire early technically NEETs?
I don't think "NEET" and "shutin"/"hikikomori"/whatever should be used interchangeably. Being a reproductively-successful, financially-independent NEET is a very based life goal.
If I could afford to be one right now I would definitely do it. Why work for the benefit of a system that hates you and wants you dead?
Reject the work vs basement dichotomy.
I would say to be a NEET you're someone who first would be expected to be part of the labour pool. A housewife and an early retirement person (ignoring the age part of being a NEET) have both withdrawn from that market because they are doing other things. An ordinary NEET is someone who tend to just never get their life started.

I do think that trust fund kids count, but the state most of the time doesn't really need to care about them so they don't really care.
 
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