Why not be a neet? - Why bother?

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Because it's your only chance at a modicum of happiness to not be a NEET. NEETs end up alone, or homeless if they don't have mommy's credit card. No girl worth having would want a guy like that, so don't be stupid.
 
I work about double the amount of hours that normal people do. If at this point, I were to go neet, depending on how I went about it, I could get up to 70% of my income in welfare programs while working approximately zero hours per year for the rest of my life. Is that extra bit of cash worth sacrificing my health at work 80-116 hours a week for most of the year? Fuck no. Why don't I give up and go on welfare? I have no fucking clue. I certainly will once my body fails me. But I'm young yet.
 
Lack of necessary skills, funnily enough. My parents worked. Their parents worked. Parents of their parents worked. They taught me how to manage finances, how to make sure that the fridge is full and the bills are paid and how to make sure to have an emergency fund. I wouldn't know how to survive without income and how to have income without work.
 
If only they could join other neets in order to create rural communities akin to monasteries that totally won't be subverted by the powers that be.....

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Welfare Ghoul said:
If at this point, I were to go neet, depending on how I went about it, I could get up to 70% of my income in welfare programs while working approximately zero hours per year for the rest of my life. Is that extra bit of cash worth sacrificing my health at work 80-116 hours a week for most of the year? Fuck no. Why don't I give up and go on welfare? I have no fucking clue.
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In this case I think you should take a break. A work week is 40 hours. If you're working that hard you don't have the time to live. Reorient, learn new skills or rethink your options, get back in when you're rested and able to support yourself working a normal amount of time.
 
Dyn said:
Holy shit what do you do for a living to get paid so little? Collect cans out of garbage bins?
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I don't get paid so little. It pays pretty well and offers a lot of time off. The entire month of October I'm off. I own a house and have three kids, one on the way. I won't say what it is, but it's extremely physically demanding and extremely dangerous. I've seen two of my coworkers lose limbs, and one lose his life overthe last 7 years. I nearly lost a couple fingers a few months back. Massive powerful machines you don't want to wear loose clothes around. The job is good because it it exclusively white right-wing men.

The welfare that could get me 70% of my income is for people who become disabled and cannot work anymore. Depending on how much you worked, you can get up to 70% of your income from the government for life. This does not include insurance or worker's compensation. I could start complaining about my very real chronic pain I got on the job. Or possibly engineer an incident that looks really bad but isn't.

Then I could collect welfare, insurance, and compensation, together exceeding my income, then stay at home, be around my kids, be present for the birth of my fourth kid, afford to have even more kids, dedicate plenty of time to my hobbies, and spend more time with my friends.

Why don't I do it? I dunno. My normal username here is Welfare Bum. It would fit so well.
 
Ibanez RG 350EX said:
Almost zero jobs reach the level of "purpose". If being a middle manager in the QA department of a furniture company is your "purpose", you are an no-inner-monologue NPC.
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The purpose of the job is to pay you the money you need to pursue your own purposeful life. For most people that means a family because we're instinctively good (enough) at making those but if you're more ambitious or a bit weirder you can make it anything you can conceive of.

Some people might be able to live a perfectly satisfying life with just welfare money, so the NEET lifestyle works for them, but most people need a job because they have higher ambitions, or at least they did before social media and free unlimited pornography destroyed all our brains.
 
Living a life without meaning is hell. That is what being a NEET is. If you want the life of Destiny, then go be a NEET.

You will be craving a last supper of 12 gauge buckshot to the roof of your mouth in no time.
 
Dyn said:
There is literally no system in the world that offers this, and even what you're describing isn't 'going on welfare', so much as 'committing serious fraud'.
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Uh yes there is. I don't live in the United States. Things work differently over here. It's not called welfare obviously. It's a government disability program. But I call it welfare because it's tax funded benefits for people who do nothing to earn it. Up to 70% of your income. The workers compensation and insurance also exists, but it's not welfare because you actually did "earn it" contractually if you became disabled. Defrauding the government is based as fuck because the government hates you. The standards are also a lot lower. To actually defraud insurance and workers compensation, you'd have to be extremely good at it because they follow you like vultures waiting for a mistake. The government system is one and done for the most part. My dad went on it after getting a vertibral fracture from a crane swinging a pipe into his back. The fact that he recovered completely didn't matter. He was openly fixing totalled cars and flipping them for profit while collecting the benefits. His insurance and compensation got cut off pretty damn quick, but he still collects the welfare.
 
There are two paths for the young man who chooses NEETdom:

1. A period of rest, learning, and self-actualization before finally emerging from the cave with the skills and knowledge to conquer his destiny.
2. An indefinite spiral into hell as the mind, soul, and body decay from inaction and terminal gooning (99% of NEETs fall into this category).
 
Because choosing to live a meager parasitic existence out of spite towards the shitty society you were born in seems like a rather depressing lot to choose for the remainder of your one and only life on this earth. Not to say grinding in the rat race is a good choice either but there has to be something you’d rather do than atrophy away in section 8 housing even if it means you’re going to get your pockets pilfered by Uncle Sam along the way? That is assuming you have the physical and/or mental faculties to make something worthwhile of yourself, if not then perhaps (and without casting aspersion) being a NEET really is the best option.
 
Would being a NEET really make you happy? I suspect it wouldn’t; NEETs seem more depressed and agoraphobic than enlightened. You’d just be running out the clock on your life, since NEETs definitionally don’t produce things of value or interact with society. (If a NEET published the great American novel of our generation, he’s no longer a NEET. He’s a reclusive writer.)

If you’re attracted to being a NEET I would ask why. Are you just feeling burnt out by wage cage and responsibility and the social contract? Do you just think other people are not worth your effort? Are you mad that someone might take something you made (whatever that is) and build on it or make transformative works? (Ie if you invented Pokémon, would you be angry about Sonichu existing?)

NEETs are basically hermits without any kind of faith or spiritual calling. I do not think it would be a really rewarding lifestyle to just play vidya and consoom all day.
 
NEETs voluntarily join the lowest point on the totem pole, choose to be less than others in every aspect, and unanimously blame others for their own shortcomings. They feel enlightened and emboldened by completely useless activities and knowledge and have no interest in information they did not come across themselves.

Simultaneously, the NEET lives believing himself to be inferior and superior: he knows that his lack of ethic for participation in society is a negative thing, but he feels smarter than the majority because he has cheated his way out of the challenging parts of life.

The NEET fails to draw any connections between having a “normal” life functioning in society and personal success. He believes his personal success is exclusively tethered to his comfort and pleasure, that to be challenged and overcome through any amount of tribulation is actually a net loss and nothing more than momentary suffering: an interruption of his hedonistic devices.

What annoys me most about NEETs is even when they concede that they should have a job or at least some sort of income, they’re either too good or not good enough for it. McDonald’s? No, I’m too smart to be a burger flipper. Warehouse? No, I’m too weak to lift things all day. Government cheques? No, I’m not going to put that I’m disabled on paper.

NEETs are like incels in that this contrived helplessness and hopelessness is somehow also another source of pleasure or attention-seeking behavior that I can’t wrap my head around. They know as a matter of fact that they are subhuman but they like to show it off like it makes them better than you in a backwards way.
 
Either you're a government NEET that gets fucked as soon as there is austerity, or you're a family NEET that gets fucked as soon as your parents die and you blow all the money. If you are so incompetent that you cannot hold a job, the odds are not in your favor that you would responsibly handle inheritance.

Furthermore, most NEETs live in a way that is not conducive to a long lifespan. They talk a big game about reading, working out, learning, and improving themselves, but the overwhelming majority sit around in front of a computer all night, drink and drug heavily, and lean heavily towards suicide.
 
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