/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>46078210
I don't follow the thought process that someone who is "not in education, employment, or training" is NOT a N.E.E.T./NEET/neet/ニート because of an ADDITIONAL quality about themselves.

For example, if that additional quality is them being from an socioeconomic class or family that allows them a comfortable existence and better means to pursue purpose, they are still not in education, employment, or training. Likewise, if someone you hate is not in education, employment, or training, the person you hate is also a NEET.

There doesn't HAVE to be an unwanted personal sacrifice to be NEET, in the same way there doesn't HAVE to be an unwanted personal sacrifice to get a job one finds fulfilling. In both cases you are engaging in an occupation, though society struggles to care about an occupation of little utility to society, hence those occupations falling under NEET.
It's a categorization based on value judgement by society at large, and depending on the society and family can be anywhere from a nothingburger, to a moral failing, to a struggle to survive. For the Japanese following the boom of the 80s, the it could be close to the latter.

Really anyone here saying NEET should be anything more or less than someone lacking the three characteristics of not being in employment, education, or training is probably looking for another term.