Pearl - The Real Redpill Is Being A NEET

00:00:00.000 Men aren't the ones that want remote work. That's women. If anything, men just want the women to 1.00

00:00:04.920 leave them alone. What's up, guys? Welcome to my reaction series. Today, we are reacting to

00:00:10.380 NEATs, which are people that are purposely opting out of the workforce. So let's see what they have

00:00:16.020 to say. Tomorrow, we will be getting the new jobs report for the month of June. According to the May

00:00:21.440 jobs report, unemployment right around 4%. Generally, unemployment is considered a negative

00:00:26.500 thing, but some young people are opting out of the labor force on purpose. These are called

00:00:31.920 NEATS, and it stands for Not In Employment, Education, or Training. And it's mostly young 0.86

00:00:37.540 men between the ages of 15 to 24. You know, it's so crazy. Women are more unemployed than young

00:00:43.600 men, and yet they created a term for young men that are opting out of the workforce. But women

00:00:48.940 are entering into the sex workforce. So what's worse, you know, and yet they're saying this is 0.99

00:00:53.900 a crisis. I'm like, I don't know. Women selling Poonani at alarmingly high rates and then asking

00:00:59.600 for a ring after is a crisis, you know. Labor economists say this population feels left behind

00:01:06.560 by the economy. For more on this, I'm joined now by Tom Gimbel, founder and board member of LaSalle

00:01:11.760 Network. Good morning to you. Happy Fourth of July. How you doing? I'm doing great. And just

00:01:17.260 for your earlier segment, Marnie, I grew up in Highland Park, Illinois, where the tragedy was

00:01:21.640 a couple of years ago and my heart goes out to everybody who's there. Yeah, my heart goes out

00:01:25.420 to you as well and all those impacted. Yeah, what a tragic day. They're finding a great way though

00:01:29.560 to honor those victims today. You know, this term NEAT was new to me and my team as we started to

00:01:34.840 look into this. Is this group of people, they don't desire to work? I mean, what does this

00:01:41.560 actually mean? Well, I think it's a narrative that's being painted, Marnie, by every side that

00:01:47.220 you can imagine just like everything else on on some clickbait stuff to be be honest with you

00:01:52.600 and i think what we have is this demographic of 15 16 to 24 year old primarily males and and i

00:02:01.280 wonder if they're just getting employed in a different way because i have found um that

00:02:06.640 usually when men are doing something contrary contrary to their nature like working um there's

00:02:13.020 catch and i'm guessing they're employed in other ways like uber eats and somehow it's not registering

00:02:19.820 them as full-time working a lot of finger pointing a lot of on the victim and and i think that you

00:02:26.780 know going back i'm 52 years old 35 years ago i would have been in a situation where my dad would

00:02:32.860 have said mow a lawn uh be a caddy at a golf course wait a table it's also that we don't have the

00:02:40.140 discipline for young men um because mothers are raising them so and we've kind of lost that bit of

00:02:48.380 desire to work in in this day and age right i mean yeah it's also because before they would 0.98

00:02:54.440 get something out of it a wife a kid and now they get a big fat whore so yeah i think of myself 20 0.95

00:03:01.720 plus years ago i mean i was i was excited to get my first job right i was like chomping at the bit 0.97

00:03:06.820 um why do they feel like they're victims victims of of what exactly right and i think that's where

00:03:13.900 we're at right now is that whether it's 15 to 24 year old males or the the demographic any

00:03:19.160 demographic that says they feel forgotten is we've got historically low unemployment for a

00:03:24.120 continued period of time we're still adding jobs to the economy and walk by any restaurant and see

00:03:29.480 the signs for uh cash register workers or servers or dishwashers and i'm not saying those are the

00:03:35.720 highest level of jobs or with somebody with a college degree once but 15 to 22 year olds don't

00:03:40.500 necessarily have college and also i i think it's deem um i think it's demotivating if you don't see

00:03:46.620 upward mobility degrees yet and so when we're looking at this the the question is do you want

00:03:51.620 to work are you falling into this i'm the victim i need flexibility i need remote work yeah so again

00:03:58.100 they're kind of gaslighting men aren't the ones um they'll want remote work that's women if anything

00:04:02.860 men just want the women to leave them alone i think men men are willing to work but they would

00:04:07.180 just prefer to work without women should only have to work when i want to and i think we've created

00:04:11.980 a little bit of this victimization is if things don't come easy especially to the younger generation 0.99

00:04:17.740 then then you don't have to do it right and i really think that go ahead go ahead no sorry

00:04:23.260 no i just think that's the deterioration that we're dealing with and i think the problem that

00:04:26.860 we have um in major cities and in the country is that no one's willing to stand up and leave

00:04:31.820 and say you know sometimes we need tough love and and when you're a young person working

00:04:36.780 that are looking for work or needing money that's what you do you go get a job and you build up a

00:04:41.900 resume is this a double-edged sword because i think about work ethic right and when you and

00:04:47.180 i started in our respective fields i mean you you went into work when you were sick you never called

00:04:53.260 off you did 10 times the work you were supposed to do because you wanted to get ahead you were

00:04:57.500 glad and happy to be there is part of the responsibility now on employers are we not

00:05:02.460 setting expectations high enough when we bring on new talent fresh green talent that i think

00:05:08.620 this is what we expect of you yeah yeah go ahead well yeah okay you know there's a few things 1.00

00:05:13.260 female bosses female bosses are a curse from hell that's one issue um another issue is going to be 1.00

00:05:19.900 um they see these hot women just get promotions while they're doing the job for them that's going 0.99

00:05:25.660 to be an issue and three uh women aren't grateful at all anymore so okay now you guys have anything

00:05:33.260 to add if you're in that age demographic put it in my computer froze for a second i think there

00:05:37.660 used to be an expression marty in your 20s you you churn in your 30s you learn and in your 40s you

00:05:43.020 earn and and in the wave of the past 25 years bull market like we've never seen people started

00:05:49.820 making so much money in their 20s and their 30s it really changed the dynamic upside down and so

00:05:55.500 everybody's now two degrees away from somebody who's a millionaire or their sibling or parent

00:06:00.300 is a multi-millionaire and it's crazy and you're exactly right is that to get out there and have a

00:06:06.860 work ethic to know what it means to get up early before the sun comes up it's not about whether

00:06:11.980 somebody's taking advantage of you you're not making enough money we all feel that way at

00:06:16.380 sometimes in our career no matter what level of the spectrum we're on and the real issue is do

00:06:21.660 you have the ability to go in and grind it out whether you're the ceo well i mean we always talk

00:06:27.100 about ceos who make some yeah but like what's in it for men to work hard before they got something

00:06:32.140 in return now they don't much money there's plenty that that think they're underpaid too it's not

00:06:37.420 just the fortune 500 ones and they're working 24 7 and it's the same way management and entry level

00:06:43.980 you've got to go in crank it out and show that you deserve more whether it's yeah and a lot of times

00:06:50.140 what happens is these guys become high status and they kind of stop relating to the low status men 0.55

00:06:55.900 and they also don't see how miserable women make low status men's lives because women will act like

00:07:02.020 two different people have you ever heard of a neat it's the acronym that stands for not in 0.79

00:07:07.560 employment education or training and apparently more and more gen zers are choosing to become one

00:07:13.320 box size linda schmidt breaks it all down well it seems there is a group of people in their 20s

00:07:18.520 around the world who are choosing to do nothing and this group even has its own acronym NEET 0.94

00:07:23.980 I don't know why it's just crazy they because women choose to do nothing all the time women 1.00

00:07:30.260 do nothing at work women do nothing at home women just are constantly doing nothing or doing 1.00

00:07:34.700 pointless things where men are doing productive things and then when a man decides not to they 0.98

00:07:41.360 never ask is this a rational response it's always let's shame them for doing it what that stands for

00:07:48.020 is men are rational people usually if they do something not interested in education employment

00:07:54.740 or training it's a motivational issue but career coach barry drexler says it is a small group of

00:08:01.620 people who are choosing not to work get an education or learn a trade he does not believe

00:08:07.780 a recent study claiming that it includes about a quarter of the 20 somethings around the world

00:08:14.260 No, it is a thing. It's a fringe issue, though. It's not the bulk of the population.

00:08:20.180 I don't think it's a real thing.

00:08:22.000 There is even a debate among experts as to whether NEAT even exists.

00:08:27.720 It's hard to take an average from economies across the globe and draw any conclusions,

00:08:34.320 because what might be representative for the United States could be very different from

00:08:38.620 a less developed country, different economies around the world.

00:08:43.300 human resources expert gregory gian grande says the pandemic dramatically changed how people think

00:08:49.620 about work but most people are still working there has been this explosion of gig workers

00:08:56.420 so people who yeah that's exactly what i thought it was creation who are working for themselves

00:09:02.100 many of them are making money off the books books so when uh they're not motivated to say that they

00:09:08.340 are that they're employed um or in training because then they'd have to report that income

00:09:14.100 and for the small fringe group not interested in working or say they cannot find work unless their

00:09:20.660 parents are supporting them and will continue to support them they can't sustain a life of not

00:09:26.740 making any money linda schmidt fox 5 news yeah again women have been doing this melania a lot

00:09:32.580 of feminism is going to be men playing women's women's game and women's game women's game has

00:09:37.780 always been doing nothing it's like the same reason they say being a mother is the hardest

00:09:41.460 job on the planet when it's not that hard and then men do it and they're like this is amazing

00:09:45.940 i would love to do this job this is what there's like a guy recently who came out and he said i've

00:09:51.060 had every job and this is the best one by far because again um whatever women can do men tend

00:09:57.220 to do better so let me know what you think in the comments guys like the video subscribe to 0.93

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Pearl - July 03, 2026

The Real Redpill Is Being A NEET

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