>>16163061The most self-serving thing a man can do is develop a marketable skill and be good at something. You'll never have self esteem and a sense of security otherwise.
As someone who spent almost all of their 20s as a neet, I have huge remorse for how I lived. Largely it was a product of actual mental illness and not a dislike of work, but please take my life experience as warning. The longer you choose to be a neet, the less that choice becomes yours to make. It becomes harder and harder to reintroduce yourself into the workforce and society the longer you're out of it. And the older you get, the less patience and compassion other people extend to you, especially as a man.
Being a neet largely means resigning yourself to a life of total isolation as well. You can't support a family, the first thing any woman worth having asks is "what do you do?", friendships dissolve into nothing, family is strained. And while there is a innate comfort in being alone for a lot of people, myself included, it is always accompanied by a deep feeling of loneliness and desperation for validation, affection, etc. Even if you don't think you feel it consciously now.
Most people need structure in order to function healthily. Otherwise you just stagnate, fall into forms of escapism and wallow in depression. We all need purpose, relationships and experiences in our lives. Wagecucking will always feel like a scam, but endearing some form of it so long as there's good aspects to it as well is always preferable.
