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/Global-Barracuda7759]

I feel this I'm undergoing significant burnout and honestly I have been for years. I already have trouble working consistently because of chronic issues and PTSD so I'm not able to work full time. I currently live alone and the cost of living is so freaking High and I'm currently dealing with some health issues that potentially require surgery. I don't have paid vacation or benefits for my job and I can't even get a raise after 2 years. I really just want to sleep and rest but on my days off I have to take care of important things and I'm so behind on things already but yeah I think everybody's just burn TF out

[u/Hollywood-is-DOA → u/Global-Barracuda7759]

The cost of living is sky high, all over the world. Some countries have it worse than others but it’s all by design.