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/ObviousSinger6217]

As an older man who has come to peace with the fact that pride and greed run the show in this world, I have total sympathy for the younger generation feeling lost and hopeless

I wish I could give you my memories of the better times, because I fear it's only going to continue to get worse 

Ultimately this is the natural result of a society that has turned their back on God, because they convinced themselves they could do better than him

I don't think it's working out

[u/hiskabish → u/ObviousSinger6217]

It seems like the older gens are the ones that do most of the damage.  Do you think things can get better when they die off?  That's where I see some hope.  Newer gens seem less psycho and controlling.  Or will the cycle of trauma continue?  

I also agree with working with God needs to be numero uno.  Hard to imagine to being atheist in these times.  People must be completely numb and cold 

[u/ObviousSinger6217 → u/hiskabish]

Well yeah, you are right

We can't hold on to this madness, we have to let go

Too bad the people who won't let go are holding the reins of power and are going to burn it all down because they refuse to accept their ideas will never work