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I've always been so jealous of NEETs like imagine not having the burning anxiety of wondering where your next meal would come from if you stopped working for a few days
Edit: i understand i have an idealized version in my mind, I'm sure it's just a side effect of having to work to pay rent since i was 14
It's not good. I'm not neet by choice, I've been dealing with a host of mental and physical problems that bar me from any real gainful employment. I'm at the whim of my family whom I'm at odds with over stuff like food and housing and if on a bad day they don't want to put up with me anymore they can cut me right off! Sure I have free time I can use to pursue hobbies and stuff but I'd rather have the piece of mind of having to not worry about food and shelter anymore.
Self Crit time, my conception of a NEET was that of a person otherwise capable of working for their own subsistence but choosing not to. This is still a pretty reactionary idea though, as in essentially buying into the capitalist idea that you don't deserve what you have if you don't sell your labor to get it. Guess i should do more thinking on the matter.
I'm sorry you find yourself in that situation and i hope you can find a way through it.
NGL, I wish there was an online support group for involuntary NEETs (inNEETS?) where it tries to actually be a productive, non-toxic place for people down on their luck.
The whole concept of "NEET" was invented by neoliberals as an alternative to saying "unemployed". They needed a way to discuss the unemployment of "socially desirable" people; White men from middle income families who in prior times would have been training to be white collar professionals. "NEET" divides the reserver army of labor in to morally good and morally depraved categories - NEETs are contrasted with Reaganite nonsense like "Welfare queens".
I understand. A lot of "NEETs" are disabled or neurodivergent in truth and rarely are the "welfare queens" that play video games all day. Besides the hatred of NEETs is comes from the "cult of productivity" rather than any true concern about self-fulfilment or alienation from labour.
Yeah that's what I'm thinking i need to reassess about my little brain worms
Can confirm as a laid-off NEET. This was literally forced on me.
Porky’s a very very picky guy and he’s more than spoiled for choice.
Yeah you just got the burning anxiety that your probably racist libertarian leaning parents will decide shoving you into the streets will help you "get over" your entire personality
Yeah I'm leaving that comment up because I need the pushback but you're right. Bad take on my part
it's okay dawg hope I didn't make you feel bad about it
Nah, nobody said they were hurt by what i said so i don't feel bad. I would rather learn and grow, y'know? Being wrong is actually ok and good sometimes