>>694067>>694069Maybe you live in a country with no workers' rights, but where I live there is something called "the dole", or unemployment benefits you get once you get unemployed under certain conditions, if you have worked more than 6 months for example.
When you work, a part of your salary go to finance such funds. Once you are unemployed, you can get this money for a limited amount of time. In my country, the funds have an surplus every year because my government is restricting more and more the conditions under which you can get this insurance, to make sure people work more for the bourgeoisie.
Also when you get the dole, you obviously don't eat at a restaurant everyday. You live frugally, cook simple meals, drink water instead of soda, etc. because you have to, but if you value free time, it's an okay trade-off.
Workers and socialists fought hard to get such a system a century ago or so. Some people died for this. So please abstain from shitting on the few workers' rights that remains in this hellish neoliberal world.
Work for work's sake is a disgusting Protestant aberration and slave morality. Work has always been reserved for the lower uneducated classes until the advent of modernity. Glorifying wage labor is glorifying the exploitation of the proletariat.
People will shit on NEETs then conveniently ignore all the tax breaks and gibs capitalists are benefiting from. It's okay to get gibs when you are rich, but when you are poor, it's bad and you should become homeless or work at a dead end job to prove you have the right to exist for some obscure moral reason. This is an absolutely reactionary way of thinking. This is a way to divide the proletariat over scraps while the bourgeoisie make more money in a month then you will do in your entire lifetime, their "work" consisting of sending emails and giving orders to subordinates.
Sadly, due to perversions like the Stakhanovite movement, a lot of people seem to believe communism is all about glorifying labor. It's not, the goal of communism is the self-abolition of the proletariat as a class. That implies the abolition of wage slavery in the long-term. That implies people having more free time.
Shitting on NEETs is completely aligned with the dominant liberal ideology in favor of capital. It's promoting misery for workers, by logically increasing the competition among them in the end. Everyone should have the choice to work or stop working for a while to rest after a period of employment, especially when there is not enough jobs for everyone like in my country.
But some people will glorify their own misery and ask for some more in a effort to bring down others to their own level. It's crabs in a bucket mentality, under the pretense of being "reasonable". I'm sorry, but I will enjoy the unemployment money I financed with my own salary for years while I can and there is nothing you can do about it.