Comment on Anon is given an ultimatum

Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I will say, billionaires also sit on their ass all day and get paid millions they use to actively make my life more miserable; and while NEETs are an issue, they are not my top priority on “people I am pissed at.”

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  • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think they’re both failures of society, if we’re being honest with ourselves.

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    • EuroNutellaMan@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure, but only one of them is an active threat to everyone and it is not the NEETs, if we’re being honest with ourselves.

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  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If we melt down the billionaires and start a UBI then the people who won’t or can’t contribute will be a burden spread thin instead of being a heavy weight on their families. My reasons for resentment of NEET by choice are personal.

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• Hoimo@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It isn’t really like what? NEET is a choice, but NEET is also a defense mechanism to make failure look like a choice. I was a proud NEET for a while and I still have some online NEET friends, and all of them have some underlying problem that they don’t want to admit (autism, in my case). Also, very often the parents enable it unwittingly. They’re supportive for too long, never get external help, then either keep enabling (too proud to admit their mistake) or turn abusive (and make the distrust worse).

  Now, getting a bus ticket to a strange city and living in a Starbucks? None of my NEET friends would ever dare do such a terrifying thing. Outside is where the dangers live. Maybe if they thought the inside threat was real enough, but… enabling parents, see?

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  These people aren’t disabled, they are entitled. NEET is a choice

  Just because NEET anons often post stories about how they beat the system, doesn’t mean that’s actually the reason why they’re NEET. The label NEET is a choice, but being longterm unemployed typically isn’t. And you know the deal about anecdotal evidence.

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  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well I don’t fucking care what you believe. There is a difference between someone who cannot work and provide for themselves and someone who simply refuses to work. The person in this post very much exists. She was my daughter. So fuck you.

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• EldenLord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Which is disappointing because universal basic income would be a good thing to have for a lot of people who are genuinely struggling.

  But for those who are not disabled, to get them to work and not chill on NEETbucks all year ‘round, the economy would have to be in a good shape and effort would have to pay off and not make all profits disappear into the billionaires’ pockets.

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  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, if we boil down all the billionaires, we’d be well on the way to providing a UBI. Right now the NEETs are just a burden that most of us can’t afford.

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• Ulvain@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s a NEET?

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  • Furbag@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    NEET is an acronym that means Not in Employment, Education or Training. Essentially, it describes someone who is neither working nor going to school and likely not job seeking either. NEETs are usually financially supported by their parents or other family members.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Isn’t NEET just a fancy way of saying “unemployed”? Most unemployed are not supported by their parents.

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      • SirIglooi@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Unemployed would also include students, or people actively gaining qualifications to eventually get a job.

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      • Triasha@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        NEETs are not looking for employment either and wouldn’t take it if it was offered.

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  • masinko@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not employed, in education or training. In education or training usually implies that it’s to get a job later.

    It usually more specifically someone who chooses not to pursue a job or career prospects. (Ie: being laid off for long periods of time but still looking for work doesnt count)

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• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yep. I know plenty of pope who work menial jobs and whine all day and drink a lot… they are all from wealthy families and are just waiting for their folks to die and/or their trust to mature. they know they don’t have to do jack shit in life and they tend to look down on people who work hard… as losers.

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• Meat_Of_Nan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have severe depression and constant thoughts of suicide. I have a serious self harm habit. I burn my arm so frequently that the top of it is mostly scar tissue. I should not be working, I should be in in patient therapy because it’s not a matter of if but when am I going to go too far and off myself.

  I still have a job. I live in constant poverty, and live paycheck to paycheck, but I still have a job and support myself.

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