Oh look, it's this faggot again. The same faggot who seems to think this is still 1980 and keeps posting on this board spreading this same work-fetishism shit on every work/automation post. The faggot that then runs off to /marx/ to whine when Leftypol rightly kicks his ass into next thursday for this short-sighted bullshit. Honestly, you could replace every instance of "NEET" with "Welfare Queen" in your post(s) and it wouldn't look out of place on Holla Forums or The_Donald or /Liberty/ or some other Right-wing shithole, because it's the exact same arguement with some sickles and hammers doodled onto it.
Tell me, do you know why NEETs exist in the first place, or in such numbers nowadays?
No, you don't get to use 'TEH LAZEE' as an answer. That's creatard-level handwaving, an excuse used to avoid having to do any research or analysis (which is, ironically enough, lazy on your part). Laziness is part of being a NEET, sure, but it's not the primary reason why NEETs exist. In fact, I'd have to argue that they're lazy because they've become NEETs for too long, not the other way around.
NEETs exist due to a mix of several reasons: Lack of available jobs due to automation and other reasons, increasing uselessness of human labor in the workplace, increased alienation of the worker in the work place, lack of fulfillment in the workplace, increased debt of education and decreased rewards of such.
TL;DR: Capitalist workplaces becomes such a hell for non-STEMlords that they try to find a way around the system of labor rather than participate in it. They don't run to take jobs because there aren't any. And because they know the ones that exist are complete bullshit that only exist to fill porky's pocket, and even that's questionable. They don't participate in education because, well, let's be frank: education these days amounts to one of two things:
A. A big daycare for people under 18 where they're pumped full of propaganda and facts none of them will ever use again.
B. A giant debt factory where the classes they'd like to learn about are completely useless in today's society, and the only "profitable" classes revolve around finance or business. And even then they usually end up just competing with highschool dropouts for service jobs anyway.
Same goes for training (which is a little redundant to put in the acronym since it's more or less the same thing as education only without the college formality..)
No you aren't. As a worker in this late stage of capitalism, you are a speck. You aren't contributing jack shit to anyone's well being other than the capitalist's, and even if you are, that 'contribution' is so infinitesimally small you might as well not even exist. At best you are an easily replaceable cog in a machine with hundreds of thousands of other cogs ready to replace you on a moment's notice. At worst, you are an easily replaceable cog in a machine with hundreds of thousands of other cogs ready to replace you on a moment's notice in a part of the machine that isn't even necessary to begin with or will be replaced with a software program in the not-so-distant future.
NEETs know the whole 'contribute to society' shit is mere hyperbole, at least in today's capitalist system. Maybe in socialism work will be a bit more meaningful (or at least better distributed. In today's capitalist society we run into the contradiction of NEETs and unemployed people existing while people who are employed are forced to work 50+ hours a week, and a lot of times multiple jobs) But if this society is more focused on creating bullshit jobs to stick people in for the sake of fetishistic work rather than increasing efficiency, even that will just wind up with the same exact problem. We're getting to the point to where productive efficiency is outpacing the capitalist's ability to replace jobs with "meaningful" work. Granted, the number of jobs available has always been less than the people needing to take them, but nowadays it's simply more obvious.
NEETs exist because the whole "you have to work hard or else you're a scumbag (the same narrative OP peddles around) is breaking down, not simply because they're lazy, but because they know they're not useful to society in any meaningful way. (And no, sitting in a cubical and writing reports that no one will ever read is not "useful" to society.")
You're not helping.
TL;DR: read more books on the subject, faggot. This isn't the 1980s anymore.
