NEETbux

English

Etymology

NEET +‎ bucks.

Noun

NEETbux pl (plural only)

1. (Internet slang, humorous, often derogatory) Money paid to NEETs through welfare schemes.
   • 2019 March 6, Sam Stein, Will Sommer, “How Little Known Andrew Yang May End Up on the 2020 Debate Stage by Gaming the System”, in Daily Beast‎^[1]:

     4Chan posters have admiringly started to call Yang’s Freedom Dividend proposal “NEETbux.”

   • 2021, Hugo Engholm, The lack of looks‎^[2], Uppsala University:

     One user argues for why someone could be both blackpilled and socialists with the argument “Maybe because of NEETbux? [Unemployment payments] Or the principle of redistributing resources to those who have least, pussy being just another resource?”