Let's see.
I'm from the Northeast and all the people I'm talking about are in the northern states.
One person of the five losers I mentioned is my wife's aunt's son. The woman has two kids. The daughter is fine, went to college, is about 20 now. Her brother camped his ass out on the couch circa five years ago and is about 27 now and will not work, will not do a damned thing other than play videogames and jerk off. Seriously. Total drop out. Brilliant guy, no known mental disorders, genius level IQ, not autistic or any of that shit. Just. Doesn't. Fucking. Want. to. Deal. With. Life. (The parents are allowing it so they are just as much to blame in my opinion.)
Another guy is the 23/24 year old son of a former IT consultant colleague of mine. Parents are wonderful people, the kid refused to attend even one college course although the parents could easily have afforded it. The kid has been home since he turned 18 and not budged from his fucking room, where he plays videogames constantly and jerks off. That is his life and he has no interest in doing anything else. Also no known health or mental disorders, straight B+ student in high school, gifted in the sciences and maths. He has simply dropped out.
Another one is one of my neighbor's kid. We live in an affluent part of the world and all our neighbors (including us) live on properties in the 2 million to 5 million dollar price range. The kid is about 27. Again, didn't have any interest in college, never moved out of the house, very smart and a nice enough guy. No known mental or physical disorders. Parents Ivy League types but very low key and smart and from what I see very good parents. They have two other children who managed to go to college and leave the nest just fine. The remaining kid just refuses to budge or deal with life. Videogames, jerking off are his life.
Another two of the guys are the sons of my wife's coworker. This is from when my wife worked at a Fortune 500 company on a high powered conventional career track. Woman she worked with and her husband have two sons, twins. Both of them have refused to get any education or get even ONE job and are still at home at the age of 28. No known mental or emotional disorders , both of them very smart and could do just about anything with their lives. The mother doesn't see this situation as odd although to hear the husband tell it, if he cant get the sons to leave before long he is divorcing her ass to get some peace for once.
Income wise these people are all middle to upper middle class except one (the Ivy League parents who live near us - they are wealthy in the 1 million a year income range.) Most of the parents are way too fucking indulgent in even letting these sons stick around and be lazy like this when they have no disorders or disabilities, and my wife has discovered that the mothers in these families are definitely attachment parenting/spoil your kids rotten types. The dads are a mix of more disciplinarian (Although that doesn't work when your wife undoes the discipline) to laid back.
When I say videogames and jerking off is all these guys do, they ARE using the Internet, just for porn. Not for news. Politics will never interest them in the slightest. They don't care about a clean environment or energy efficient cars or anything as long as they have their electronic toys and the ability to download porn when they need a break from videogames.
All of the people mentioned are white, too, for what it's worth.
They all live in areas where there are still plenty of jobs of all kinds, so the recession isn't the problem. It's a mixture of completely disinterested/socially alienated youth and attachment parents that's the problem, as I see it, anyway.
