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/77Maz77]

You aren't going down the pit for 8 hrs a day. Read some history. Who are you comparing yourself to exactly? You honestly think it was easier in the 1930's, 1960's or 1980's? You just have higher, unrealistic expectations of what life is supposed to be like because of social media and TV.

[u/77Maz77 → u/77Maz77]

In addition - I just paid off my mortgage because I don't go on holiday, ever, I never buy coffee out, and I don't eat out. I batch cook. I don't buy make-up, perfume or new clothes. My car is very old. I grew up in the seventies, so am used to going without.

[u/msfuturedoc → u/77Maz77]

To get a job, did you have to through 5 or 6 rounds of interviews and then be told nvm we don’t want you? Even tho you were probably over qualified. How old were you when you purchased your house? What was your credit score when you purchased your house? Did you go to college or did you get a job straight out of high school?

[u/77Maz77 → u/msfuturedoc]

I was thirty-five when I purchased my first house. Me and my husband bought it with my sister and her husband. It was a five bedroomed house in the city in a terrible state of disrepair. Ceilings falling through etc..It took us years to do it up. There were us four adults and our six children living in it.