Are you a NEET?

Not a NEET.



Nope and it's because I like to pay taxes and talk to people.

If one is a part of China's United Front human network, then yes. There is a sense of solace when paying taxes.

Pretty much what you said aligned with my interest. Not all people want wealth as the #1 priority and I'm saying this as a person who has super-rich (from my perspective) working parents, but rejected their money.

I earn my own money fair and square while not complaining as a working class individual.

Yes, against all odds and against all my enemies, I've succesfully become a NEET. I defeated the school and their brainwashing, I defeated my constantly nagging parents, and I defeated the job centre. I consider this one of the greatest victories of my life. There's people who don't take risks, people who let the merciless stream of society carry them wherever it wants, people who let themselves get manipulated and beat down and sacrifice everything for safety and conformity. but not me. I stand defiant, and I always will. I'll always take the big risks and I'll never forget who I am.
"It is better to die a NEET than to live as a wageslave" - ReadMe, 2024

ReadMe? I think you meant to say DesuMaiden

What are all the long-term NEETs planning to do when they won't be able to mooch off their family anymore? 🤔 Finally digging up some motivation to work? Dying? Becoming homeless?

@fleurbleue anyone can become NEET as illness can strike, mentally or physically. or you could get fired/laid off.

congrats to being invincible. that is an impressive feat.

@AnimeFreak-San

If it's against their own control sure I'm not going to judge. But I definitely will if they deliberately decided their long-life plan was to become a leech so they could do nothing all year long.

@fleurbleue

Just because people don't earn money, that doesn't mean they don't do nothing all year long and leech on others.
A friend of mine took care of her dementia father, another stayed at home with their children for four years.

I think people are quite brainwashed by capitalism (not about you specifically), so they think only work that you get paid for, is actual work or a lifestyle worth respecting.
No healthy person got a long-life plan of doing nothing and I don't think laziness is real. Laziness is often a symptom of depression or of an underlying physical illness.

@LittleOwlbear

The examples you have mentioned are already referred by fleurblue as "If it's against their own control sure I'm not going to judge." so your response is kinda redundant

@fleurbleue

Just because people don't earn money, that doesn't mean they don't do nothing all year long and leech on others.
A friend of mine took care of her dementia father, another stayed at home with their children for four years.

I think people are quite brainwashed by capitalism (not about you specifically), so they think only work that you get paid for, is actual work or a lifestyle worth respecting.
No healthy person got a long-life plan of doing nothing and I don't think laziness is real. Laziness is often a symptom of depression or of an underlying physical illness.

@JoeChip

I don't think so. At least most people do have other options like nursing homes (which is a valid option too) and parents don't need such a long parent leave, but lot of them want to do.

And even if people are just staying at home for whatever reasons, as long as they are contributing in some ways to the household they are living in, I don't think they are leeching. It should be a personal choice to work.
Attractive job offers don't need to force people into work. If the job is attractive enough and fulfilling, people would like to work in it. It's just the shit jobs with long working hours, an awful wage, etc... that force people into work or otherwise threatening them to become homeless or depending on the state.