Current Events > Do parents of NEETs feel like massive failures?

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Or do they think the world is stacked against their poor NEET child and that their child is blameless in their NEETdom?
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maybe

but my parents had 2 kids

so the backup kid is doing alright
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well my moms disappointed in me but I don't think she feels like a failure over it she feels I'm a failure. Though I think she has partial blame in why I am the way I am though but who cares really
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How do you live as a NEET?
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Vaati_Reborn posted...

but who cares really

I do, seems like as the world is getting more complicated what it takes to be a good parent is more difficult. I think the NEETdemic is going to get worse and worse and that has a large societal cost.
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Probably. Who wants to raise a mooch? Imma hopefully train my hypothetical future children to be assertive and self-dependent
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My bet is it's going to explode in a way that makes the current NEET problem seem like very small potatoes.

Automation is changing society faster than society can change people.
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krazychao5 posted...

Who wants to raise a mooch?

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pinky0926 posted...

My bet is it's going to explode in a way that makes the current NEET problem seem like very small potatoes.

Automation is changing society faster than society can change people.

i agree, seems like a storm is brewing.
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They probably feel like parents of strippers and serial killers. Ashamed, but they secretly know it was their fault as they were failures as parents.
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K181 posted...

Ashamed, but they secretly know it was their fault as they were failures as parents.

Why's it always the parents fault if the kid is a failure? Can't the kid take responsibility for their own life?
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Population control will become very important soon.

Also Automation still creates maintenance and production jobs, but the problem is that essentially, dumb jobs will be replaced with smart jobs, and that is a problem in its own.
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REMercsChamp posted...

K181 posted...

Ashamed, but they secretly know it was their fault as they were failures as parents.

Why's it always the parents fault if the kid is a failure? Can't the kid take responsibility for their own life?

You can't just blame one of the parties, it's probably both their faults.
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Megaman50100 posted...

dumb jobs will be replaced with smart jobs

This has been happening for decades already
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REMercsChamp posted...

This has been happening for decades already

Sure, but I mean to say it has been accelerating.
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Megaman50100 posted...

Population control will become very important soon.

Also Automation still creates maintenance and production jobs, but the problem is that essentially, dumb jobs will be replaced with smart jobs, and that is a problem in its own.

I mean the entire point of automation in the first place is that a single machine can do the work of a much larger group of people, so it's not like there's a 1:1 job replacement thing even if you assumed the skills are transferable.

I look at my office and half the people there could be replaced with better accounting software and a printer.
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I can see someone surviving as a NEET if they play good poker. Just play poker most of their day and make money.
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pinky0926 posted...

Megaman50100 posted...

Population control will become very important soon.

Also Automation still creates maintenance and production jobs, but the problem is that essentially, dumb jobs will be replaced with smart jobs, and that is a problem in its own.

I mean the entire point of automation in the first place is that a single machine can do the work of a much larger group of people, so it's not like there's a 1:1 job replacement thing even if you assumed the skills are transferable.

I look at my office and half the people there could be replaced with better accounting software and a printer.

my job right now at work is to help with the procurement portion of an SAP conversion which we will use to get rid of a bunch of buyers making between $80-120k and replace them with outsourced Indian labor that makes about $10k a year, but will be possible because we are really simplifying it.

so its also taking what were once high paying thinking jobs and replacing it with answering yes/no questions that anyone that can read at an 8th grade level can do.
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KILBOTz posted...

pinky0926 posted...

Megaman50100 posted...

Population control will become very important soon.

Also Automation still creates maintenance and production jobs, but the problem is that essentially, dumb jobs will be replaced with smart jobs, and that is a problem in its own.

I mean the entire point of automation in the first place is that a single machine can do the work of a much larger group of people, so it's not like there's a 1:1 job replacement thing even if you assumed the skills are transferable.

I look at my office and half the people there could be replaced with better accounting software and a printer.

my job right now at work is to help with the procurement portion of an SAP conversion which we will use to get rid of a bunch of buyers making between $80-120k and replace them with outsourced Indian labor that makes about $10k a year, but will be possible because we are really simplifying it.

so its also taking what were once high paying thinking jobs and replacing it with answering yes/no questions that anyone that can read at an 8th grade level can do.

So they're making $120k doing a job that an 8th grader can do and wonder why they're being outsourced. Well golly gee willikers mister!
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Parents of NEETs most likely don't give a fuck and are probably bad parents.
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REMercsChamp posted...

KILBOTz posted...

pinky0926 posted...

Megaman50100 posted...

Population control will become very important soon.

Also Automation still creates maintenance and production jobs, but the problem is that essentially, dumb jobs will be replaced with smart jobs, and that is a problem in its own.

I mean the entire point of automation in the first place is that a single machine can do the work of a much larger group of people, so it's not like there's a 1:1 job replacement thing even if you assumed the skills are transferable.

I look at my office and half the people there could be replaced with better accounting software and a printer.

my job right now at work is to help with the procurement portion of an SAP conversion which we will use to get rid of a bunch of buyers making between $80-120k and replace them with outsourced Indian labor that makes about $10k a year, but will be possible because we are really simplifying it.

so its also taking what were once high paying thinking jobs and replacing it with answering yes/no questions that anyone that can read at an 8th grade level can do.

So they're making $120k doing a job that an 8th grader can do and wonder why they're being outsourced. Well golly gee willikers mister!

an 8th grader couldn't do it today, but in the future state they could.

so no, no one is wondering why they're being outsourced.
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KILBOTz posted...

REMercsChamp posted...

KILBOTz posted...

pinky0926 posted...

Megaman50100 posted...

Population control will become very important soon.

Also Automation still creates maintenance and production jobs, but the problem is that essentially, dumb jobs will be replaced with smart jobs, and that is a problem in its own.

I mean the entire point of automation in the first place is that a single machine can do the work of a much larger group of people, so it's not like there's a 1:1 job replacement thing even if you assumed the skills are transferable.

I look at my office and half the people there could be replaced with better accounting software and a printer.

my job right now at work is to help with the procurement portion of an SAP conversion which we will use to get rid of a bunch of buyers making between $80-120k and replace them with outsourced Indian labor that makes about $10k a year, but will be possible because we are really simplifying it.

so its also taking what were once high paying thinking jobs and replacing it with answering yes/no questions that anyone that can read at an 8th grade level can do.

So they're making $120k doing a job that an 8th grader can do and wonder why they're being outsourced. Well golly gee willikers mister!

an 8th grader couldn't do it today, but in the future state they could.

so no, no one is wondering why they're being outsourced.

Right, it can be done by an 8th grader after you introduce technology into the job. Same thing.
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