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There should be a government program to handle situations like this if there aren’t. Take an assessment of their current skills and interests and get them into employment and/or training for something that fits. You basically need to intervene when the parents won’t and do it in a way that’s as least stressful for the person as possible. It would pay off in the end because this person may end up on government assistance later when they most need it. Politicians who can pull this off may get to claim to have reduced unemployment in their reelection campaign. And it’s just a good thing to do. Some people won’t take the initiative. You have to do it for them and hold their hand.

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Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Wait, you guys don’t have that? US I assume? Damn, does your government do anything?

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- Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It kills brown people
  
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  - Napster153@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    They kill poor white people too on occasion so it balances out.
    
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  - Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh, come on. It kills far more than just brown people.
    
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- TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I don’t think the federal government has a program like this, but I went through unemployment after getting laid off last year in Massachusetts and they had resources to help you find careers and training/qualifications and whatnot. Some of the dumbest, lowest empathy people you encounter bitch about Communist Taxachusetts non stop but we have it pretty good here compared to some other places in the Union.
  
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  - 5318008@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The tax revenue per capita in Massachusetts is about $9000. (source)
    
    We should happily pay $9000 per year to not live in Oklahoma.
    
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- captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The only thing our government actually does that’s uncontroversial is running a bunch of parks, and even those are understaffed
  
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- RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Governments are for Communists.
  
  /s
  
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chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The US used to have the Job Corps program…

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Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There’s also temp agencies. They’re shit and the jobs they give you will be shit but they’re pretty good at finding something for basically anyone who isn’t completely unemployable. Someone whose only issues are a lack of transportation, housing, and work history would still be considered a good get by most temp agencies.

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OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Japan is probably the closest by actually having the hikikomori problem in public discourse. Most of the rest of the world they probably end up homeless.

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- tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Japan is just ahead of the curve when it comes to problems related to arrested development. They’re not better at planning, they just experienced it earlier
  
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- TeaWithDani@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Lots of people end up on welfare and in social housing under similar situations. We stigmatize those people so much that it never enters public discourse in the same way.
  
  People who are unhoused tend to have even more severe difficulties resulting in that situation.
  
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TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
you can do this own your own without the government. there are plenty of places like temp agencies that do this already.

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- TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  I wish my government had some social safety nets like some other countries do to help out people like this HAVE YOU EVEN HEARD OF SHITTY PRIVATE BUSINESSES THAT SORT OF KIND OF DO THAT BUT NOT ACTUALLY? GO OUTSIDE YOU MORON! Are you OK and if not would you like a hug?
  
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  - TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    because it works perfectly fine if you’re not a helpless moron, that’s why.
    
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- eah@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  but you’d have to actually… look it up and leave your house to do any of this.
  
  That’s the problem. The sort of person we’re talking about isn’t going to do this. What’s needed is an army of people incessantly knocking on doors offering to help.
  
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  - TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    they aren’t going to open the door either man.
    
    you can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves.
    
    though on lemmy people think a political revolution is going to like… magically fix people like this… but the only person who will is themselves.
    
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- RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Private services are not the same.
  
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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Which government are you talking about there’s more than one you know.
  
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