Young men today are less likely to work than in previous decades, and male college enrollment has stagnated, fueling narratives of a generation increasingly adrift. A group of key concerns is the population labeled NEET—young people “not in education, employment, or training,” also known as “disconnected youth” or “opportunity youth.” To effectively address the challenges facing young men in the United States today, it is essential to clearly understand the characteristics of the NEET population, including adding nuance to commonly used definitions.

We define NEETs as the noninstitutionalized civilian population aged 16–24 who were neither employed nor enrolled in school (high school or college). Importantly, individuals classified as NEET may still be actively seeking employment. To assess true disconnection, we disaggregate this group by their primary reasons for being NEET—including if they are actively looking for work, have a disability, and their parental responsibilities.

Why is there an arbitrary cutoff at age 24? What about over-30 NEETs?

https://aibm.org/research/a-generation-of-lost-men-the-reality-of-neet-data/

Escapism and unemployment should be punishable by death.

>>507492331 (OP)
How do these guys manage to NEET for so long?

>>507492331 (OP)
Most have no incentive to do so.
Previous generations had families and girls to go out, so getting a job was important, besides it wasn't as saturated as it is now.

Now you may get a job just to feed yourself, buy some drugs and rot until you're 70yo

>>507492331 (OP)
Was a NEET pretending to go to college and leeching off of my mother from 18-27. She kinda knew all along I guess.
I did sign up and drop out from like 3-4 schools/courses over that time.
I was basically the welcome to the NHK guy just fat.
Went through similar things as well and then some of course minus the random girl.

Now I'm 29, been working for 2 years, lucked out with a bottom of the barrel call center job I do from home for the most part.
I'm dreading what will happen once I'm replaced or fired. No skills no prospects.
Got myself some CCNA books, but can't be fucked to do anything I'm not forced to.
I basically sign in for 8 hours then after work I just stare blankly at 4chan or wizchan or some youtube / manga.
Been trying to improve, but with the above schedule it's been slow, and my worries are many, be it health or just the world and my prospects in general.

The biggest struggle is that there is no light at the end of the tunnel. To be honest I was way too far gone before I turned 18 anyways.
I was already daydreaming and coping with whatever I could.
Making is not and was never an option.
Unfortunately not wanting things to get worse or future damage mitigation is not a good motivator to do things.

Nothing really stimulates me anymore anyways. Video games, anime, manga I've seen it all. It's just something to pass the time and boy is time passing at warp speed nowadays...

>>507492463
Tom Sawyers too.

shouldntvest defrauded and unlawfully converted us and conveyed slave status on top of usufructus
not to mention the whole mooo baaa fiat peonage legal tender nightmare

>>507493102
>Most have no incentive to do so.
I actually had to talk myself into spending money on random consumer shit.
I bought myself an ipad with some weird justification and don't even use it. Was like 1.5 months salary.
I have saved up about 7 months of salary too, but for what exactly?
Housing is out of reach for me permanently.
Everything else is just either necessities or frivolous spending.
Also that 7 months of money is currently being inflated away at the speed of light here where I live. So not blowing it actually feels like the dumber thing to do.

>>507492463
You sound like a prison guard. Ever wonder why so many men practice escapism to begin with? Maybe it's the terrorists like you who want to punish men with death while they are already down and out who should be killed, instead. You deserve it more than they do.

>>507492331 (OP)
How are these guys NEETing without:
>rich parents
>a disability
>income of some kind

>>507493993
>Ever wonder why so many men practice escapism to begin with
yes, they're not employed enough

>>507493905
You can buy gold or silver to retain the value of your money instead, or open up a brokerage account with a bank and invest in index funds. It's important to save for retirement. Probably best to buy some books and pledge yourself to spend at least two to three hours outside of the house, away from electronics, reading after work rather than staying indoors on the Internet.

>>507492331 (OP)
If im not getting any pussy them im not working for a man who does.

>>507492331 (OP)

The solution for neets is simple

1. Get hit by truck
2. Wake up in another world
3. Become sorcerer/swordsman whatever
4. Get hot elf gf

I don't know why more guys don't do this

>>507492331 (OP)
>have you considered getting a job
How many times do we have to TELL YOU? They don't hire white men. They don't even hire you if you're an LGBT white male. They are looking for every other person to hire before you. They'd hire an autistic aboriginal before you.

>>507492331 (OP)
We’re not going to serve jews fuck off

>>507492463

Do you realize some of us were forced out of legitimate careers by DEI? You are a fucking fatass Eglin faggot

tldr

Honestly, being a bum isn't so bad as movies make it out to be, just don't hang in the city and you'll be fine

>>507494433
>just save
>in a jew hyperinflation environment

Lmao

>>507494433
I can't buy gold or silver without providing ID.
At that point is it even safe? Government can just seize it.
I didn't post with my flag because honestly my coworkers if by chance see what I described it's easy to figure out its me, but I'm in basically the worst of eastern europe in the EU.
I checked some of the banks offerings, but the accounts management costs basically eat up everything. Not to mention I'm not exactly competent as you might guess based on what I described.

As for spending time outside the house, my options are fairly limited, but you are probably correct. It needs to happen. Home office is a blessing and a curse.

>>507494194
Lots of families, especially non white ones, get free money from more than one government program. Nobody looks too hard at such things turning into a multi generation grift because that's racist to even think such thoughts. And if these people of whatever color actually go to work some job such as grocery, delivery, construction, etc., they lose a lot of their free money from the government. It ends up being a much more fulfilling life to do nothing and collect the free money than to work 8 hours or more per day, have little to zero free time and you still can't afford to move out of the house. The Reward to Incentive ratio is so fucked I can't blame these people for grifting. And that's before all the social issues of blaming men in general and white men in particular for everything that ever has, is and ever will go wrong. Talk about a disincentive to participate in society. What's the point? You are giving all these men of any color a ton of reasons to do anything at all other than work for you. You never said so much as, hey, it would be really nice to have a few men around to help out. Oh, yeah, you've been doing the heavy lifting all day, you've earned a break. It's all, shame, shame, shame. Misery, misery, misery. Attack, attack, attack. Move, move, move. And I ain't talkin' bout the army where you at least get to fight once in a while. This is in regular civvy jobs. I get it. You can't stop shitting on people without them being too lazy. But neither are they going to give up their good enough lifestyles just so you can feel superior to them. I'm sure you will take their entitlements away at some point but until then, they ain't budging.

>>507492331 (OP)
Why are leftists so mad that men aren’t in education or working and then immediately talk about how every job needs to be 50% female. I’m doing what you want, dipshit. Let a woman or a brave immigrant have my job

>>507492580
because the parents are too lazy to do the chores around the house, so as long as the neet son does them they can stay

>>507495676
I'm not shaming, i'm asking how the fuck these guys manage to NEET. NEETs on 4chan talk a lot of shit on wagies, but somehow have money to survive. I'm asking how they manage to survive.

>>507492331 (OP)
>why is there cutoff
because you arent fit for military service after that

>>507492331 (OP)
I turn 30 by the end of the year and have never really work3d a day in my life. I was in education for several years though, got to live on my own in an apartment paid for by my folks for the better part of a decade and enjoyed myself a lot. I also came out of the whole experience with both a bachelor and master degree which over here guarantees a comfy job in the public sector teaching kids how to speak English. I have no problem working, but I do want to delay it for as long as I can. Life as a neet is not terrible, far from it

>>507496146
Welfare and other programs. I don't know all their names because I don't partake of them. Think about whatever that one is that gives people a food allowance per month. And the catch is you can spend "up to," the limit. You can't turn it into cash and spend it on other things. Each month, it resets and the game starts again. What's to stop them from sharing the food? Yeah, if they try to resell the food they get in deep shit, but there's no rule saying they can't share a meal or ten with whoever needs some. Or if there is such a rule, who would care to enforce it? Especially if one is feeding their immediate family only.

Simply put, society and women have pushed men past the point of breaking and have crossed the threshold of the trust thermocline. The concept was explained back in 2022 in the context of businesses, but it's a similar outcome.

>>507492580

Family not wanting to kick their kids out. People like me didn’t move out until I was 31 because I couldn’t land my full time job with benefits until I was 30.

Another case could be made for this 42yo NEET my idiot sister is dating who successively embodies r/antiwork principles. My sister has always desperately wanted to be a man so she lets him live rent free without obligation. Fucking loser.

>>507492463
>>507494363

>>507494632
this show was so fucking bad, but they invested so much in the animation. it must really reflect widespread nihongo sentiments, and that's pathetic.

>>507492331 (OP)
Women, niggers, and immigrants took all our jobs and lowered any wages white males should be able to demand.

>>507492580
I did the zogbot to neet pipeline. Picrel is my monthly benefits check. I never thought I’d be a neet but the neet life chose me. I’ll let you in on a little secret life is good when your neeting.

>>507492463
ok retard

>>507492331 (OP)
gee, i wonder what happened
*throws your application in the trash*

>>507497501
Agreed, your sister is a fucking loser, imagine propping up a neet, lmao.

>>507492463
You're a retard that doesn't live in the real world. This isn't the 1960's where you walked out of school at 14 into an apprenticeship anywhere you wanted, and owned a house outright, and had a wife and 3 kids by 25. There are no jobs, of those that do exist, none of them pay enough to cover the basics of food/rent/utilities anymore (let alone get a house and start a family).

You provide a system which provides the bare minimum first, then you can cry about what behaviors are or aren't acceptable. Until then you're some luxury-beliefs faggot no different from fantasy land communists.

>>507492463
Why?

>>507497890
The novels basically kicked off the modern isekai craze, but it took forever to get its own anime adaptation.

I'm a NEET but I look good so it's okay. Some day you people will have to learn that it's all about looks and whether you had a bunch of free female attention as a young'un.

>>507492331 (OP)
Being a neet is a noble thing. The neoliberal techno-dystopia we live in is patently unjust. Who can change the world? Only genius and talented people. Such people are much less than one percent of the world's population. But why should talented and genius people change the world for the better, if they can just take a place at the head of the hierarchy and excessively satisfy all their material needs? What is left for ordinary non-talented and non-genius people? Most of them are constrained by social norms instilled in them by their moronic parents, as well as by school and other educational institutions. Raised in the spirit of competition and striving for personal success, they voluntarily become slaves of this disgusting order, keeping it alive. However, even an ordinary person can contribute to the improvement of the world - it is enough for him to become a burden to society, unconditionally manifesting his existential value. Only the threat of social catastrophe can motivate talented people to improve the world.