The Humble NEET is not problematic.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
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what does NEET mean?
Not in Education, Employment, or Training
Not in Employment, Education or Training
In case anyone is wondering, this is the real answer.
Nice try, I prefer the elephant one
I am a self funded NEET
No Eating Elephant Testes
ah, that really makes sense
Not Everyone Eats Tendies.
It means they are a burden on everyone around them on purpose.
A lot of them are depressed, autistic or have a visible disability. It's really hard for them to find a job, especially in this economy. Many of them don't receive the support they need because they're adults. I don't think NEETs like being NEETs. So your statement is pretty ableist considering the reality of people. It reeks of "most homeless people can't be helped because they choose to be that way".
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It's not necessarily on purpose or being a burden on anyone. Last year I spent quite a while as a NEET living off my savings while job hunting. Yes it's generally tied to those who are voluntarily unemployed without savings or responsibilities, but that's just among those taking pride or joking about it. It's just an economic category, and it's one that I and many others fear we may be forced into in the near future.
that isn't what a neet is dude.
you were just normal unemployed. lots of people are unemployed for long periods of time while actively looking for a new job, or take on temp/part time work in lieu of full time salaried employment.
NEET is people who actively do not pursue employment, aren't in school, and who refuse to work at all. Most often they are just young people who are totally dependent on their families/parents. Sometimes they are just rich people who don't have to work and fuck around. Often they are socially isolated and don't have active social involvement with anyone.
My personal experience with NEETs is they often had well-off family who just let them fuck around for years because their parents had co-dependent personalities, or paranoid/controlling personalities, and hence they'd rather have their kid be NEET than independent of them.
I am 60 and a NEET, have been so since I was 40 but I am a self funded NEET.
NEET is people who actively do not pursue employment, aren’t in school, and who refuse to work at all. Most often they are just young people who are totally dependent on their families/parents. Sometimes they are just rich people who don’t have to work and fuck around. Often they are socially isolated and don’t have active social involvement with anyone.
NEET literally means "not in employment, education or training", it's just not usually used by people who are short-term unemployed, have a socially acceptable excuse (e.g. "housewife") or fit into other well-established categories like "homeless".
Most often they are just young people who are totally dependent on their families/parents.
Lots of NEETs are older. They might end up on the streets if they don't have a family that is able and willing to care for them, but homeless are still NEET (unless they are working while homeless, which is actually a thing). Homeless just aren't usually visible online.
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Don't know if it's necessarily on purpose. Some people lose their job or have to withdraw from schooling against their desires and spiral into depression. So burden, yes. On purpose, probably in the majority or more infamous cases, but far from always.
like an aged pensioner ?
They have already contributed to society. Do you hope to work till you die on the production floor?
Not in education or employment
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I can't tell if this is a joke
Truly empathetic and understanding
Anon is fine now, but they will absolutely lose their shit when mom loses the house and they are forced to move into an abandoned hot dog.
(Joke is that she wanted her NEET son to get a job in the name of helping with finances and turn his life around)
If I had to guess, it's probably because for a lot of people being a NEET is depressing state of being. No direction or control over your life and you're at the whims of whatever happens to your family, economically. People with nothing to look forward to tend to wig out over petty shit like one less tendie.
society also thinks you're awful and shitty, so that doesn't help.
True, there's no reason to have everyone working at the level of automation we've reached, but some people think it's the 1950s or something.
A good life
I remember when dad lost his job I started drinking water and stopped drinking pop.
Respect anon, respect.
yeah, I stopped popping so i felt full and didn't need to eat.
The hard part is a having a mom who will make tendies for you, my parents used to take money out of my paycheck for themselves, ill be neet when im dead lol
Making due with yod dropping
Is “make due” a Canadian accent thing?
no. that phrase is used in USA and UK english. It's just not common.
And it’s “make do", not "make due."
NEET of ten years, thats a ten year old right?
Ten year Olds go to school, which is the second E in NEET
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