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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

From NEETS to Hikikomori to Cloud-Serfs...

 
from Google AI:
NEET is an acronym that stands for Not in Education, Employment, or Training. It is a socioeconomic classification that refers to young adults or teenagers who are unemployed and not enrolled in school or vocational training.

The Social and Economic Phenomenon

Originally coined in the United Kingdom in the late 1990s, the term has become a widely used metric for economists and sociologists globally to track the health of youth labor markets.

The Classification: It applies to individuals, typically between the ages of 16 and 24, who are either actively looking for work or have stopped participating in the labor force entirely.

Global Scope:
  • The phenomenon exists globally, with higher percentages often exacerbated by complex factors such as mental health struggles, caregiving responsibilities, or difficulties transitioning from school to work.
  • Cultural Slang: In internet culture and some countries like Japan, the term can sometimes be colloquially used to describe individuals who intentionally retreat from society, often spending their time at home.
Other Meanings

If you are not referring to the socioeconomic acronym, you might be thinking of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). This is a massive, highly competitive medical entrance examination in India required for students seeking
admission to undergraduate medical and dental programs.
The Commodification of Information
...from Leisure to unpaid Labour
and BACK!  Everything is Kayfabe Now!

23 comments:

Les Carpenter said...

The days of capitalist engineered human suffering in the pursuit of wealth accumulation at the top 1%-3% of the economic pyramid will eventually come to a close. Sooner or later the "underclass" will unite in solidarity and destroy the selfish and inhumane capitalist destruction of the planet. As well as those who willingly and knowingly support its destructive force. Profit cannot forever superseded the welfare of the planet and basic human needs.

Capitalism is evil created and employed by the imperialist, colonialist, and capitalist class for the last 400 to 500 years. It will die and be replaced by a far better exceedingly more balanced model for structuring human existence.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

That sounds like you expect mankind to transition from being horde animals, to herd animals. That won't happen. Horde animals hoard, and "wealth" (excess capital) in the form of capital is what they hoard.

In primitive times, that wealth was sacrificed non-productively in a potlatch. More recently, it was sacrificed "productively" to "philanthropy" which simply hoarded more wealth to serve the "productive" interests of the philanthropic trust.

The point is, wealth continues to be hoarded by organized "trusts". Corporations, made "immortal" by the legal codes. They are in Swiftian terms, Struldbruggs. And so long as the legal codes protect these Struldbruggs, capitalism will continue in something akin to its' present form. It has only been made worse in the form of accumulation of capital in "other" forms (Intellectual Property - IP) and other "Non-Tangible" (but legally protected) Assets from which "rents" can be extracted (ie - Bill Gates Microsoft Windows products). Hence my desire to create a Shanzhai system that would eliminate this form of capital extraction.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

But hey, you demand a revolution in the streets. I simply demand one in the legal code,

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...one putting an end to Technofeudal rents and corporate Struldbrugg and passive investor class legal protections

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I believe that such action would reduce the capital scarcity for the vast majority, and enable them to transition from a "consumer" society to a "prosumer" (Tofflerian) one, in which every "Shanzhai" operator owns his own "means of production". And wealth redistrubutes from the hierarchical top, back down towards the Middle Classes and makes the wealth distribution more "Normal" in shape.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...like in the many Hong Kong shops I used to frequent in my sailing days who had my body and foot measurements and produced custom clothing for me (suits, shirts, pants, and shoes).

Les Carpenter said...

No, I demand nothing. Individuals are powerless alone. As capitalism has highlighted beautifully. For the capital class. However, in solidarity, with purpose and direction, the 97%-99% can force change. Change thar benefits humankind, NOT greedy self interested capitalists.

I would much prefer change occur through the courts and legislative process. However, the entrenched, conditioned, and heartless capital class of the top 1%-3% of capitalist will be too ignorant and greedy to allow that to happen. Wealth yields political and economic power. Eventually the people will wrestle that power from the imperialists and collonialists that devised the capitalist model.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

A resurrection of the "family" business the re-incentivizes human reproduction and grants children a "sincere" (vs. profilic) identity as a small business operator. Names like "Smith" and "Baker" and "Carpenter" would restore truth to their surname.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

All self-identity "Authenticity" realized through Shanzhai!

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Than the voters need to stop falling for the divisive Kayfabe identity politics du jour. And the only way for that to happen is to restore the emphasis to CLASS struggle instead of race/sex/religious struggle (identity politics).

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

ps - and the legal boundaries are NATIONAL NOT GLOBAL. You can't let the 1% simply shift and shuffle their protected capital assets from one shell-nation to another. The globalism has GOT to STOP!

Anonymous said...

yeah
outright commie talk

I as one who lived in commie paradise know that satanic chants damn too well

Anonymous said...

go relocate to China
they already have that "solidarity, with purpose and direction", dimwit

Anonymous said...

and North Korea even MOAR

but, your answer will be "No"

because you wanna redo USA into such commie paradise

Anonymous said...

//The globalism has GOT to STOP!

Mission Impossible.
Yawn.

But well, you coud accomplish even that... with my revolutionary tech(s)

But you don't wanna...

Les Carpenter said...

You're the dimwit. But hey, your right. Keep on keeping on dimwit, anon.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

No, mine is the same California Republican Radical Progressivism that my Uncle Louie's ancestors practiced in the CA Statehouse and that opposed the corporate power of the Northern, Central, and Southern Pacific Railroads since the late 1890s. The same radical progressivism that opposed the King's Highway passing thru their village of Gotham (Wise Men of Gotham/ Chelm).

Small businesses. Anti-fragile. NOT "throw the baby of Commerce out with the bathwater of the abolution of property in Communism's battle with Capitalism (commodification of land, labour, capital, and now, information).

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Who's are the Capitalist Class in China? Xi and the ruling families of the CCP. Wern't the "3 Represents" CCP reform VUNDEVAH!

Google AI:

The Theory of Three Represents is a socio-political doctrine defining the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Introduced by former General Secretary Jiang Zemin in 2000, it dictates that the party must represent:

Advanced productive forces: China's developing economy and technological progress.

Advanced culture: The progressive and cultural development of the nation.

The fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority: The needs of all Chinese citizens, which legitimized the inclusion of private business owners into the CCP.


The CCP LOVES its' billionaire Red Guard families!

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I don't want a "Commie paradise". I want a Hong Kong under British Administration that would never hand it's colony over to the CCP.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

And I want to Shanzhai the HELL out of every commodity known and as yet unknown on the planet, solar system, and local bubble.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Your tech will abolish the proto-world government structures financed by the ILOS Treaty? Maybe you should take your Tier 0 tech to the UN for Undersea resource exploitation.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Oh wait, America funds all THAT bs, too!

Les Carpenter said...

Ayup. Always part of the problem. Keep on keeping on. You do it exceedingly well and certainly convince those who refuse to think for themselves. Those who love to bow and be lead by a moron idiot and his "movement" of hate and ignorance.