If physical or mental health issues bar you I’d consider that different. I never really understood how you can live your life being a NEET. Its a term I’ve known about for awhile but only recently remembered was a thing. Do you have bills? Do you have autonomy in general? Whats the living situation look like? Is the term offensive? I have a ton of questions really. Not here to shit on anyone I’m just full of curiosity on this one.
Is being retired the same as being a NEET, though? I retired in my 40s and live with my bf, who works, but not sure if that’s what people mean when they use that term.
What’s the difference?
Retirees are using money they saved, SS, pension etc that they earned during their working years, and I understand NEETs to be adults young and capable but disinterested in working/training, whether they have income/savings/pushover parents/sugar-parents.
So it’s basically just a judgment call of whether someone “deserves” to avoid working, because of having had a job in the past? To me it’s basically the same if people are living the same sort of life, because those sorts of judgments are not a good way to consider a person’s identity. It’s only natural to not want a job and the main question is whether you have the means to avoid being coerced into it, people who have the means are really in the same category.