This will happen to a lot of other first world nations, that have raised their youth online. Not because of lack of jobs, because lack of social skills.
Japan’s Lost Generation Is Still Jobless and Living With Their Parents (Very long read)
- Thread starter Anerdyblackguy
- Start date
Will check out.
Smoking With Cigarettes
Superstar
I was surprised to learn how many NEETs exist in this country about 4-5 years ago. By 2030 shyt will be
We next
with the rise of automation
I think everyone has someone in their family that was smart and/or functional and just missed the boat.
I have an older cousin like that. He's a good dude, went to college, etc. but he just never took off the way everyone expected. Moved around for a minute but now he's at home with his mom in the same house he grew up in.
I have an older cousin like that. He's a good dude, went to college, etc. but he just never took off the way everyone expected. Moved around for a minute but now he's at home with his mom in the same house he grew up in.
Disclosure
Pro
You only have a small window of life when you are young to set up a career, finances and social relationships. If you are not born with with the the correct skills, talents and personality traits needed to live a successful life both financially and socially you will be pretty much resigned to live a shytty life of poverty and misery. Add to that an economic slump right when you hit your 20's and its pretty much over.
Last edited:
AquaCityBoy
Veteran
I only skimmed the article, but I've read before that Japan views unmarried men over 35 as extremely low-value and useless in the job market. They view married men as more likely to work hard because they have a family to support, and probably less likely to leave because they need that stability.
I've said for years America is slowly turning into Japan in terms of social isolation and work culture, so I expect a similar future for us if we don't get this depression under control. Zoomers and millenials are already coming out of school struggling to find jobs, which means they'll start their eventual careers much later than their predecessors. If they graduate college, they may have to work outside their field for a while, and when they try to come back, they won't have enough relevant experience and will likely be aged out of the market. If they decide to go to graduate school, they'll be overqualified for the entry-level jobs but still too inexperienced for the mid- and higher-level positions.
This was the reality for a lot of millenials even before the pandemic, so I only expect it to get worse from here.
I've said for years America is slowly turning into Japan in terms of social isolation and work culture, so I expect a similar future for us if we don't get this depression under control. Zoomers and millenials are already coming out of school struggling to find jobs, which means they'll start their eventual careers much later than their predecessors. If they graduate college, they may have to work outside their field for a while, and when they try to come back, they won't have enough relevant experience and will likely be aged out of the market. If they decide to go to graduate school, they'll be overqualified for the entry-level jobs but still too inexperienced for the mid- and higher-level positions.
This was the reality for a lot of millenials even before the pandemic, so I only expect it to get worse from here.
Japan is literally the direction we've been headed, they just got to the spot first because they had their housing bubble pop in 88'. The Japanese Economy has NEVER recovered from the crash. This is our future, just bleaker because we have less internal infrastructure to handle it than Japan does. No safety net etc etc.
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
The elderly are going to prison in Japan to survive
Because the LDP has hollowed out their safety nets, but they are still there on some level, we don't even have that. Our elderly will just die, look at COVID. Same shyt. They're reaching the point where they've hollowed out the country on a similar trajectory to ours, but since we've advanced that to this point, when the final cards fall here we're in for a steeper fall because we haven't had 3 decades to normalize things just being the way they are.
shyt gonna get bad.
yung Herbie Hancock
Funkadelic Parliament
Yea I've watched that anime, it was great. I actually knew a NEET when I was in high school. He was an exchange student from Yokohama. His parents sent him to study to the states in hopes that he would make friends and come out of his shell
. I wonder whatever happened to him though
.
yung Herbie Hancock
Funkadelic Parliament
They also have no natural resources and they are losing their comparative advantage when it comes to electronics (China replacing them in terms of consumer electronics and South Korea got the Semiconductors on lock).
They better hope that they become the first country to build highly sophisticated AI, that's their only chance right now
.
you counting those born in the late 90s as millenials?
Their only hope would be if they weren't also mired in an irreparable demographic crisisThey also have no natural resources and they are losing their comparative advantage when it comes to electronics (China replacing them in terms of consumer electronics and South Korea got the Semiconductors on lock).
They better hope that they become the first country to build highly sophisticated AI, that's their only chance right now
Which makes their political crisis even worse because there's no political will of a nascent generation waiting in the wings. Even if they wanted to become an industrial titan again, I don't think they even have the political will or ability to do it. It's just a country we have to watch die in slow motion.