Mentions (12)
"she was laid off her job a year ago, and it seems in the year since she's done nothing but drink, doom scroll, and garden."
"Japan had the concept of a hikikomori years before NEETs permeated the public consciousness in the west."
"1/8 of young people are NEETs. 1,000 people a day are applying for personal independence payments: benefits designed to help disabled people. Even with the cuts the government has announced the welfare budget will be £95 billion in 2030, rather than £100 billion."
"The rise of the NEET: "Students are increasingly refusing to go to school""
"also every single character is a red scare archetype (NEET, bpd gf, 17 year old who dates lame older guys, bitch who dates a closeted gay guy, bitchy gay guy, nice bitchy gay guy, bi-curious woman who works at a record store, social climbing performer, rich sociopathic groomer)"
"Live at home (pool house). It's nice but in a rural area. No movie theater rural. I don't drive and I don't know anyone. No more savings, tons of debt, no prospects."
"When they're asked what they would do if they didn't have to work they mostly say, 'play videogames', 'jerk off', 'watch TV/Movies/twitch streams', or 'just lounge about my home'. All these just sound like the daily existence of a gamer NEET, speaking as someone whose mom worked every day just like "
"For context, I'm a 24m neet. Addicted to video games since before I was potty trained. Parents did not discipline me or guide me at all. I gave up on life at 14 and entered the Oedipod and now I am realizing that I completely wasted my entire life. Nearly all my memories are things I saw on the inte"
"Fact is, modern life is pretty overwhelming and some men(NEETs) and women(Trad wife aspirers) see this as a way to opt out. Women have a template for what a socially acceptable way of escaping the workforce looks like, men don't, but essentially they're both driven by the same social pressures."
"55 or so, and quit working about 10 years ago, not a fire type or anything just mom makes enough money. Well I guess who cares if it works for them right. It's just that I have to bear witness to this hopelessly soulessly geriatric lifestyle…watch my father spend all day watching the likes of ancien"
"Technically not a NEET since I'm employed but I am one in spirit. I spend almost all my time not at work in my room (live with roommates). I have no friends or close relations - not even online friends - and zero interest in making any."
"I'm finally actually in the stages of starting work. Just have to do some inductions and buy some clothing. I don't know how to feel. I'll be glad to be rid of the feeling of having done nothing constructive day in day out and the crushing loneliness, but I'm now starting to wonder how I'm going to "