Bwa-Ha-Ha-Ha!
Over 4 million Gen Zers are jobless—and experts blame colleges for ‘worthless degrees’ and a system of broken promises for the rising number NEETs
Fortune via Yahoo | 03 25 2025 | Preston ForeOver 4 million Gen Zers are not in school or work in the U.S. and in the U.K. 100,000 young people joined the NEETs cohort. But it’s not generational laziness that’s to blame. Experts are taking swipes at “worthless degrees” and a system that “is failing to deliver on its implicit promise.”
There’s been a mass derailment when it comes to Gen Z and their careers: about a quarter of young people are now deemed NEETs—meaning they are no longer in education, employment, or training.
While some Gen Zers may fall into this category because they are taking care of a family member, many have become frozen out of the increasingly tough job market where white-collar jobs are becoming seemingly out of reach.
In the U.S., this translates to an estimated over 4.3 million young people not in school or work. Across the pond in the U.K., the situation is also only getting worse, with the number of NEET young people rising by over 100,000 in the last year alone.
Listen up, losers:
I got a degree that earned me every cent I retired on. Every. Cent. And not one of them represents a tear for you. Lesbian Studies, indeed.
Neet-0…
All I know is the Baby Boomers are the greatest generation of all time because we turned weed into medical marijuana. 🥴
Amazing. Well, so the Gen-Z NITS (nitwits) are now NEETS and about as worthless as biting NATS in a coastal Georgia town.
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I can only direct so much hatred toward Gen Z. Most of it goes towards their parents that created a system designed to con people out of their (and our) money and raised them to be failures. It’s unfair for us to expect them, as a 17-19 year old, to figure out on their own that their parents are full of $h!t, their school counselers, their friends, their teachers, the media too. To figure out that the best thing for them is the more difficult, less glamorous, lower paying (as advertised) jobs that society looks down upon.
Biscuit, I believe this is a well-versed and thoughtful analogy of the Gen Z situational plight.
Could you also offer the Gravy?
Reports show that teen pregnancy rates are down, and Gen Z consumes less alcohol than any other generation. Maybe they are making responsible decisions. Or maybe it’s a cause and effect situation.
There is an overabundance of credentialled people whose credentials don’t help them land any jobs. And now the government is set to lose a great number of the few jobs they may have qualified for.