Every day you wake up, puritanical capitalism dictates an absolute interest: make money, be productive,serve the boss-class through wage slavery, be polite, don’t cause fuss. A king on high taps his scepter,commanding what you should value and sacrifice for. Will you let him script your ecstasy? Have you handedyour desire to the state and its apparatchiks? Somewhere in a basement, a goblin hunches in a multi-monitorNEET cave. They’ve smeared those “objective puritan morals” beneath ramen wrappers and half-finishedJRPG mods. They are free—the NEET seizes liberation today.NEET-hood, in its classical form, is wholesale commitment to protracted leisure. Through the skillfulapplication of perpetual idling—oscillating between “almost looking for work” and “nah” triggers like longYouTube essays and twelve-hour gaming sessions—a NEET enters supra-natural bliss where the capitalistfetishes for productivity, efficiency, and profit simply fizzle. “Anti-social”? No: it’s a rational riposte tocapitalist alienation. Everyone’s already squirrelled into isolated cubicles; NEET-hood is the personal revoltthat values interest for its own sake. It is egoistic revolution made manifest.Don’t be duped:“Duped egoism consists in the belief in an absolute interest, which does not spring from theindividual. . . but arises imperiously against him, an ‘eternal’ interest.” [1]Be ever watchful that you’re not sold a metaphysical trinket for happiness. Joy appears only when you chaseyour own interest, not the state’s shiny bauble. Reject the universe proffered by puritanism; craft your ownworld.NEET-hood births a new reality—a NEET-verse—where the only god is the god of individual desire, indirect rejection of puritan “objective truth” that “is uninteresting, because there is no consideration in itfor you or your interest.” [1] Leftist martyrs who swap church for socialist state still chain leisure to somehigher plan. In both, idleness is shackled to “objective duty.” Remember:“The interesting can only be interesting through your interest. . . what is interesting despite youis an uninteresting thing.” [1]Therefore seize your interest, pad out the NEET cave, and stop minting capitalist value. Kill the keeper ofcommodity production; starve the consumer they want you to be.Some will protest that games, anime, and media remain capitalist products. Yet most of this culture livesin the shadow-economy: torrents, fan-subs, cracked executables, Patreon pennies to indie devs. Mediaconsumption leaks, screams, thrashes its way out of neatly priced models. The bedroom becomes a hotbedfor pirate syndicates and queer hacker co-ops.Cries of “screen-time addiction” telegraph anxiety over God and Country. Self-diagnosed media junkies don’tactually binge more than the average worker doom-scrolls commuting [2]; they’re flagellating themselves fordisloyalty to productivity. The state cultivates perpetual dread about any enjoyment that dodges the cashregister. The NEET strives for freedom from capitalist drive—a wholesale rejection of commodity productionin favor of perpetual personal pleasure.1NEET ManifestoCast off the shackles telling you to “touch grass” so you’ll be fit for the next shift. Torch the time-clockyou locked your life to. Jump off the hamster wheel of building yet another disposable widget, writingcode that hires more wage-thralls, or serving latte #1792343 to consumption unit #197239. Leap into theNEET cave; sculpt reality until it’s actually worth inhabiting. Stop genuflecting before capital’s altar, thatself-important idol of “objective desire.” Piss on the edifice of constructed hunger designed to keep you onyour knees. Become a NEET—become free.