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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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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chad donkey from shrek 2 Retweeted Jake Gotts
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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