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Robert W Malone MD, MS's avatar
Failed Fledgings, Parasite Singles, Four NOs, Basement Dwellers, NEETS or Ninis.
SimulationCommander's avatar

The problem is that a large minority of these “adults” are choosing not to work or have a career, not to date, not to own many possessions and to not have a family. They want to earn the minimum amount possible to survive and then live life on the internet.

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I obviously can't speak to everybody who's in this situation, but when I decided to become a minimalist (way before it was cool, obviously), it was because I couldn't stand the thought of funding all of the immoral shit that go…

aldous huxtable's avatar

Thats all fine and good if they are willing to make a go at it on their own, leave the system and set up an alternative society, but this is whining and quitting.

Yes, society failed them, but do something about it. Playing video games in your basement and ignoring life because "it sucks" was never an option in human history.

You had to do something about it.

Ultimately I agree with you because ultimately you have to suck it up and overcome whatever life throws in front of you, but what about the world right now makes you think that anything that anybody did would change the system? (Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your post)

And ultimately any protest that these people did would be for MORE STUFF. I don't think that's the answer?

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