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Young people are rejecting work. Why?

Old Hippies

“I’m considering living in the wild, just trotting around the globe with little money,” reads a post on a Reddit forum for Neets. “I was working [in] a retail store and the first few hours were OK, then I had to deal with customers,” reads another. “I packed my bag and just left.”

In this forum, a community of 44,000 people from around the world share advice and discuss the challenges of being a Neet — an acronym for not in education, employment or training.


We used to call them Hippies but that 60’s outbreak of sticking it to the man’s society was hatched during a period of economic prosperity.

How do you motivate a kid who’s been over educated and over promised, told that he likely will never own a home and whose standard of living is being undermined by mass immigration to support Corporate bottom lines?

Keeping your nose to the grindstone means you end up with no nose and no access to healthcare nowadays.

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