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Saw a reel (TikTok? Shortform video?) about a Guy that was larping as a NEET in a tropical country.
And one comment really summed up my thoughts: go back home and get a job lmao.
Why do these people celebrate being leeches to society and seemingly aren't self-aware?
They get our scientists and engineers meanwhile we get this.
They're not sending us their best folks
Because a person's goal in a capitalist system is to do nothing while getting everything. To ascend from the exploited to the exploiter. It's wrapped in rosy language such as "passive income", but that's what it is. If a person can be a neet outside their parents' basement (which seems to be the case in what you describe), one must ask where's the money coming from
I am a “neet” because of a severe mental disorder I have. I'm going to depend on the welfare system my whole life. In this situation, you are no different from a Nazi. You want people like us to die? That’s literally social darwinism which is Nazi ideology. Your comment is inhumane, as are you and all the privileged people who approve of it.
I think you're making a huge assumption here. The context was people who choose to move to a different country to live off of "passive income", not people who are unable to work. Don't jump straight to calling someone "no different from a Nazi" without verifying their intentions
It was clear what they had in mind with the basement comment. Good old lazy neckbeard stereotype...
maybe there is some prejudice involved in the basement comment (I can't speak for Shrike in that regard), but there's a big difference between that and comparing someone to a Nazi
We want the government to provide ample services so everyone, you included, can live in dignity.
We don't like seeing otherwise productive people exploit poor and marginalized folks to get there. I think we can appreciate the difference in quality there
I have this feeling that I've had conversations that had friction and I couldn't tell why because I've internalized this notion. Ive also been provocative in saying that there's no such thing as rewards for hard work and doing good for society is entirely separate from making enough. Or popping off with saying NEET would be the highest aspiration short of destroying the system and getting justice for the exploitation.
I have been seeing a lot of life-hacks about how pensioners move to south east Asia with their cash because the low cost of living and also to bulk buy properties and live on passive income.
You are going to have that problem with countries with questionable economic sovereignty (look at the Philippines in particular) instead of becoming a state with possibilities to do local development, you have oversea entities coming there to suck out the resources, labour, wealth and talent out of them and leave the place to die
Can't fucking stand those people. They used to be somewhat common in my area so my friends and I would pull all kinds of pranks on them when we were bored after school. One of my buddies would set off firecrackers and you would hear them screaming and slamming into shit thinking guns were going off lmao