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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American NEETdom is pretty foreign to me; there aren't many structurally unemployed people in my social graph, much less long-term NEETs I follow some self-professed NEETs on this site, but most of them seem really sharp, well-read, and socially observant if not well-adjusted
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I wonder if these guys are representative of the 10 million NEETs in the US (this also seems like a weirdly large #) And would this mean that NEETs are disproportionately represented in the 1% of internet creators? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture) …
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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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