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Is this similar to hikimori, minus some of the extreme social withdrawal?

Is this the human equivalent of “the beautiful ones”, where the cut-throat resource hoarding and society’s enforcement of non-violence has lead to a somewhat different way of “checking out”?

As soon as one kid or dependent is involved there’s great pressure to participate in the rat race.




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