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SMAAART on June 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are l...

This was a thing (and still is) in Europe. US ridiculed them, and now it's here.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET

stagger87 on June 11, 2021 [–]

> US ridiculed them

What do you mean by this? Some people on some online forums made some jokes?

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