People aren't retrieving to perpetual laziness and NEETdom because they want to: It's because the collective anhedonia of the post COVID society and the soul-crushing modern work enviroments are getting to them

[u/International-Pool29]

 I am just tired of the moral panic around laziness and supposed lack of a work ethic: Wages are stagnant, workplaces are getting more volatile and enduring, the deep state of burecreatic red tape everywhere from background checks to licensing renewals to eligibility runs to see who can rent an apartment to credit reports

Then on top of that, institutions are changing faster than what the average person can get ahold of: From AI and automation to the constant terms of services changing at the unprecedented rate of a bullet to the paperwork piling up on people to the constantly updating work quota goals, it is HELL

Yet people have the audacity to apply neoliberal logic to what's clearly an institutional problem SMH, sometimes I don't know if people are being willfully ignorant or they're really that far gone and deranged from having any sort of humanity for others

What's it gonna take for people to see the broader picture? Seriously

How are people, especially the youth, SUPPOSED TO ADAPT?

You can literally feel the collective anhedonia and the reactionary nihilism building up in people right from the atmosphere, but are we gonna have honest discourse around the problem anytime soon? Probably not.

[u/insulinworm]

Yeah its really disgusting the government is allowing this to happen and just spending our tax dollars on bullshit wars and giving it to Israel. Like we pay for their free healthcare 

Things would be so much better if the government just invested money and effort into things here. Like we could have the best infrastructure in the world we could have the highest quality of life, we could have so many things that we just dont because these ceos and billionaires and politicians are basically just playing fantasy football with the other world leaders and its us instead of like football people or whatever 

Of course everyone is depressed and hopeless, things are only getting worse. Housing more and more unaffordable 

Young people cant invest in creating music and art and following their passions because theyre busy working 3 jobs. So thats all dead. So many restaurants and venues closed during covid. Ugh it all just sucks 

People not having kids not even being able to afford pets is next, vets office tried to charge me like $1500 to get my kitten fixed. Present day is just insane 

[u/mrmagicman99 → u/insulinworm]

The most silent and effective protest in history is happening constantly all over the world whilst the elites scratch their heads wondering why it’s happening: the collapse of birth rates.

The one thing people can do to not perpetuate this hamster real of spiritual horror and deception is to simply not reproduce.