I will say, billionaires also sit on their ass all day and get paid millions which they use to actively make my life more miserable; and while NEETs are an issue, they are not my top priority on "people I am pissed at."

It isn't really like what? NEET is a choice, but NEET is also a defense mechanism to make failure look like a choice. I was a proud NEET for a while and I still have some online NEET friends, and all of them have some underlying problem that they don't want to admit (autism, in my case). Also, very often the parents enable it unwittingly. They're supportive for too long, never get external help, then either keep enabling (too proud to admit their mistake) or turn abusive (and make the distrust worse).

Now, getting a bus ticket to a strange city and living in a Starbucks? None of my NEET friends would ever dare do such a terrifying thing. Outside is where the dangers live. Maybe if they thought the inside threat was real enough, but... enabling parents, see?

Which is disappointing because universal basic income would be a good thing to have for a lot of people who are genuinely struggling.

But for those who are not disabled, to get them to work and not chill on NEETbucks all year 'round, the economy would have to be in a good shape and effort would have to pay off and not make all profits disappear into the billionaires' pockets.

What's a NEET?

Yep. I know plenty of pope who work menial jobs and whine all day and drink a lot... they are all from wealthy families and are just waiting for their folks to die and/or their trust to mature. they know they don't have to do jack shit in life and they tend to look down on people who work hard... as losers.

It's pure entitlement. And if you call them out on it, they go straight to the sob story about how mommy and daddy are mean or something.