Inflation is gonna make life hard for us NEETs in the future, even if you stop being a NEET

[anon1822fourthacc]

Sorry for the daily dose of sunshine, but the math in my head clicked and I just don't see any way in which we're not fucked.

Everything is getting more expensive, EVERYTHING. Idk about your country, but I think it's everywhere. Over here, every month or so the prices are slowly getting higher. As if them already doubling or even tripling in some cases wasn't enough.

I don't think anything is going to collapse. Not even in 50 years. But the world will definitely get so much poorer and more unequal. Inflation is gonna eat at us until all one can afford with a full-time salary is the electricity bill and a modest diet. You'd probably need two jobs just to barely survive.

Anyway, here's my point. Every one of us can get jobs eventually, even those who think they really can't. You sure as hell will when the alternative is not having electricity and food.

BUT, having a job will soon be an even more miserable fate than before. It won't be enough, a job will barely pay for anything. One needs a career, some sort of ladder they can climb so that they're not at the bottom level all their lives.

But anybody NEETing that is already 25+ probably won't have a career in their life. Plenty of low-level jobs, but no career. And in a world where a regular job can barely pay for food, our fate is quite grim. At least normies will have hope of rising up the ladder. But if you're reading this, you're no normie.

Shit's not good, man. Inflation will cook us alive. I wish I hadn't been depressed for years before and during college. Would've studied something more useful if I wasn't so depressed I could barely get out of bed.

For the past several years I've been deluding myself that I'll come up with some business idea that'll suit me and I'll make it. But it's pure delusion, I reject every idea I come up with or encounter.

Hmm, why am I making these doomer posts? They're pointless lmao .

 

[frightfulcel]

The government here gave people free money but my shopping bill went up. They are just shuffling around money while pretending its "free".

 

[Brother Wagecuck]

neetbux? or disability bucks? unless those are being cut...

 

[Lordgoro]

Sorry for the daily dose of sunshine, but the math in my head clicked and I just don't see any way in which we're not fucked.

Everything is getting more expensive, EVERYTHING. Idk about your country, but I think it's everywhere. Over here, every month or so the prices are slowly getting higher. As if them already doubling or even tripling in some cases wasn't enough.

I don't think anything is going to collapse. Not even in 50 years. But the world will definitely get so much poorer and more unequal. Inflation is gonna eat at us until all one can afford with a full-time salary is the electricity bill and a modest diet. You'd probably need two jobs just to barely survive.

Anyway, here's my point. Every one of us can get jobs eventually, even those who think they really can't. You sure as hell will when the alternative is not having electricity and food.

BUT, having a job will soon be an even more miserable fate than before. It won't be enough, a job will barely pay for anything. One needs a career, some sort of ladder they can climb so that they're not at the bottom level all their lives.

But anybody NEETing that is already 25+ probably won't have a career in their life. Plenty of low-level jobs, but no career. And in a world where a regular job can barely pay for food, our fate is quite grim. At least normies will have hope of rising up the ladder. But if you're reading this, you're no normie.

Shit's not good, man. Inflation will cook us alive. I wish I hadn't been depressed for years before and during college. Would've studied something more useful if I wasn't so depressed I could barely get out of bed.

For the past several years I've been deluding myself that I'll come up with some business idea that'll suit me and I'll make it. But it's pure delusion, I reject every idea I come up with or encounter.

Hmm, why am I making these doomer posts? They're pointless lmao .

Im hoping ill be dead after my books are finished, so I dont have to deal with that too much. Im 52 now, so maybe so.

 

[SpacersChoice]

I eventually plan on becoming homeless cuz working 12 hours a day just to have a place to sleep every night doesn't seem like it's worth my time.

 

[Lain]

There's countless people who'll be on a similar footing, people that spent decades in a field that will have their field automated, what will they do? The majority of jobs could be automated and will be in time almost assuredly. There's really only a few ways this'll turn out I think.

1. Most jobs are automated. There's a huge surplus of goods and materials, far more than we have now. The government gives a livable amount of money to each person at this point and some basic living quarters, home ownership will still be a thing but most people would be priced out of any large living space. You'd be free to decide what you'd want to do with your life so long as you aren't particularly troublesome and commit crime. The rich would be people either born into wealth who brought about this system of change and have possession of the automation or they're the highly skilled and technical workers needed to maintain this complex system.

2. Most jobs are automated. The value of labour is at an all-time low, most government come up with elaborate schemes to depopulate instead of keeping all these monkeys around. You could argue that family planning, phytoestrogens and so on are already part of this scheme. But if the government doesn't give money to the people and they're all poor, they will revolt. It would be very hard for them to kill off the majority of people in a short period of time, in a way that doesn't include any valuable member of society and that isn't leaked somehow. But for the sake of argument, they find a very slick way of either slowly depopulating the earth tactfully or some virus or something of that sorts.

3. Most jobs are automated. The government actually isn't an all-powerful agency full of evil and intelligent actors but instead a system of nepotistic idiots that let scientific progress run it's course with no meaningful plan of combating the inevitable consequences of it. Corporations that control the vast majority of the government indirectly and have insane influence begin to create jobs that hold no real meaning of purpose, that produce very little of value. The reasoning would be that if the populace have no money, they can't buy their products, if the government won't hand out money and can't be coerced into doing so, the corporations themselves would have to figure out some way to give the populace money. A type of corporate welfare system to the masses for the benefit of corporations. Who would buy highly efficient goods made by automation if the workers who were replaced by it never get capital?

We already have enough food to feed everyone in the world, electricity is only becoming cheaper and more reliable over time, housing costs will eventually (in reality, not what you're told by a merchant) be close to non-existent. What happens when the supply chain is truly perfected? When humans aren't necessary for anything outside of keeping the machines running? The kneejerk response would be to kill everyone deemed useless but who'd decide and would they actually be able to get away with it? Some people think the COVID-19 vaccine is a depopulation effort, plenty of high IQ scientists and engineers and so on that would be useful in a society post-COVID took it however and plenty of random niggers in Detroit didn't. It's no so easy.

 

[anon1822fourthacc]

There's countless people who'll be on a similar footing, people that spent decades in a field that will have their field automated, what will they do? The majority of jobs could be automated and will be in time almost assuredly. There's really only a few ways this'll turn out I think.

1. Most jobs are automated. There's a huge surplus of goods and materials, far more than we have now. The government gives a livable amount of money to each person at this point and some basic living quarters, home ownership will still be a thing but most people would be priced out of any large living space. You'd be free to decide what you'd want to do with your life so long as you aren't particularly troublesome and commit crime. The rich would be people either born into wealth who brought about this system of change and have possession of the automation or they're the highly skilled and technical workers needed to maintain this complex system.

2. Most jobs are automated. The value of labour is at an all-time low, most government come up with elaborate schemes to depopulate instead of keeping all these monkeys around. You could argue that family planning, phytoestrogens and so on are already part of this scheme. But if the government doesn't give money to the people and they're all poor, they will revolt. It would be very hard for them to kill off the majority of people in a short period of time, in a way that doesn't include any valuable member of society and that isn't leaked somehow. But for the sake of argument, they find a very slick way of either slowly depopulating the earth tactfully or some virus or something of that sorts.

3. Most jobs are automated. The government actually isn't an all-powerful agency full of evil and intelligent actors but instead a system of nepotistic idiots that let scientific progress run it's course with no meaningful plan of combating the inevitable consequences of it. Corporations that control the vast majority of the government indirectly and have insane influence begin to create jobs that hold no real meaning of purpose, that produce very little of value. The reasoning would be that if the populace have no money, they can't buy their products, if the government won't hand out money and can't be coerced into doing so, the corporations themselves would have to figure out some way to give the populace money. A type of corporate welfare system to the masses for the benefit of corporations. Who would buy highly efficient goods made by automation if the workers who were replaced by it never get capital?

We already have enough food to feed everyone in the world, electricity is only becoming cheaper and more reliable over time, housing costs will eventually (in reality, not what you're told by a merchant) be close to non-existent. What happens when the supply chain is truly perfected? When humans aren't necessary for anything outside of keeping the machines running? The kneejerk response would be to kill everyone deemed useless but who'd decide and would they actually be able to get away with it? Some people think the COVID-19 vaccine is a depopulation effort, plenty of high IQ scientists and engineers and so on that would be useful in a society post-COVID took it however and plenty of random niggers in Detroit didn't. It's no so easy.

Incredible post, as always.

I think what you're saying will happen very slowly though, that's the painful part. There won't be a day when the government wakes up and decides to do something, whether good or bad.

I think it's going to take decades. Decades of jobs being automated, inflation eating away at wages, increasing the cost of living to absurdity.

People won't be unemployed, they'll find jobs. Worse jobs, that pay less and work them more. The value of labor will become lower and lower, but never quite to a boiling point.

It won't be a dystopia, it'll be what we have now, but worse and worse. Slightly, day by day, month by month becoming worse. And just like the housing crisis that has been going on for decades, it'll be something no one will be fixing. For decades.

I don't think the government is as organized as we think, nor the corporations. I don't think they're capable of an organized response. They're too corrupt and incompetent. They'll just keep doing what they're doing now, providing some solutions in name only, doing some bandaid thing that barely helps. All while each corporation is just looking out for its own gain, not caring about the big picture.

And unfortunately jobs won't be automated in a big wave. Slowly, taking many years. There won't be a welfare system to replace the old jobs, people will just get worse jobs to feed themselves.

Probably a stronger and more brutal police force in order to stop any crime waves that might arise.

P.S: Either that or the rise of communism or fascism, neither of which are fun at all, very scary.

 

[Thenettraveller]

from a perspective this is the best time to be a neet, and just sit it out.
Why work when you have no savings left anyway? Just for the sake of working?
If one has the ability to just cut down living expenses, and wait for what is coming in the future, this is what companies are doing to when a recession is hitting meaning now.
A Neet has time to also learn skills to then get a job that will not be automated if he wishes, but sadly most neets are too far gone to use their time and energy in a positive way.

 

[Magonia]

One of the customers was really impressed with the high price of this bag of candy (with mysterious blue liquid inside)