Has anyone seen a NEET to WEEP for ?

First posted at http://www.goodenoughcaring.com/ on 9th November, 2009

Has anyone met a NEET ? NEET is one of the latest of a long line of acronyms to reify unique human beings. I won't bother to write out what NEET stands for because by doing so it would seem as if I was validating the notion. It is an acronym coined by wise people who I will call - at the risk of being hoist by my own petard - WEEPs, that is people who are it seems Wise, Educated, Earning and Pontificating on what others - specifically, younger adults - should be doing. According to WEEPs the very least we must expect from NEETs is that they should be getting a job, or getting an education or joining some imaginative project out of which a well sponsored WEEP will be earning a good salary.This is the kind of project which though it will pay NEETs nothing will enrich them in so many other sublime ways. I suggest that each and every WEEP should get in touch with an individual NEET and say not only am I going to make sure you get the education you want and that is relevant to you but also until this can be achieved and you get a job I am going to give you half my pay. This is the least and the greatest service a WEEP can provide for a NEET. Footnote : it may be coincidental but following the publication of this piece, Doctor Tony Ord, an Oxford academic who researches ethics, has decided to give 50% of his future earnings to others. To read more about Doctor Ord go to - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8360098.stm