He’s desperate for companionship, but he says he would rather die homeless than end up serving hamburgers. It’s better, he thinks, to spend his nights surfing Reddit in a Benadryl haze: "Going outside is a prison. But this room — this room is clarity.”http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/the-world-of-american-hikikomori.html …
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NEETs on Twitter are almost certainly edge cases wrt propensity for online writing, but still... 293 million American internet users = ~3 million creators and if there are 10 million NEETs spending a disproportionate amount of time on the internet, it's not implausible
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More on neurodivergent NEET edge cases; this guy is describing Michael Burry, but unemployed https://twitter.com/iridiumzeppelin/status/1210645835622445057?s=21 …https://twitter.com/iridiumzeppelin/status/1210645835622445057 …
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Maybe disproportionately, but I think most online creators are creative and conscientious enough to work, or to monetize their content. Are stay-at-home parents, students on break, & retirees are marginal NEETS?
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Good point; I suppose the challenge is defining what NEET means. The 10 million figure comes from Pew, which defines the age range as 16-29 (so probably not many retirees, but maybe some stay-at-home parents). Pretty sure students on break don't count thohttps://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/01/28/us-eu-neet-population/ …
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