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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 48 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Wealth inequality is the cause of almost every single economic and social issue in existence.

If young men had the money to have agency in their lives they would be living life instead of living with their parents to save money while seeking validation through internet fascists.

If school wasn't desigend to be a day care service for Capitalists our children would be properly socialized with the different sexes/genders before getting the chance to grow up into incels.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 19 points 6 days ago (11 children)

I call it economic infantilization.

Back in 1960 US minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the average US home was $11,000.00 A brand new car was around $2,500.00 A teenager could move out of the house and be self supporting and grade school kid could work hard and pay for a car on their 18th birthday.

It's hard to feel like an independent adult when you can't afford anything.

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[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago (3 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

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

As always nothing will be done on a public level.

US version of Japan's Hikikomori?

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