Aren't these guys misusing blackpilled? I thought it was specifically for suicide not just going NEET? Which like we should talk about but not through this corporate productivity-washed drivel.

[–] bier 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you also didn't know

"Not in Education, Employment or Training", its an acronym for people that don't go to school, don't work and are mot looking for work.

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Valid point, as well, given that part way through the article she says she's watching a guy who is working, he's just doing what would be considered frontline labor and I guess that underemployment is what's qualifying that guy as a NEET? At least that's how I understood her take, which, as we've said, is not what this acronym is supposed to mean.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also it's a backronym from the similar Japanese term which refers to a growing number of people there who have abandoned society and hole themselves up in their room literally never going outside.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wictionary says it went the other way from NEET to ニート(nīto): https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88

You're probably thinking of 引きこもり(hikikomori): https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%BC%95%E3%81%8D%E3%81%93%E3%82%82%E3%82%8A#Japanese

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I always found "hikikomori" very amusing, because if it was slightly different, and written "hikikomero", it would literally mean "sweat closet" in Finnish (hiki = sweat, komero =closet) , which is a very apt concept for how lots of hikikomori live.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like another name for a sauna to me 😅

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That is true as well.

But having like a few pc's and a microgrow going in a small dark room isn't too far from a sauna