Hikikomori

[MichiganJFrog]

So there's introverts, and then there's those guys in Japan that don't leave their bedrooms for years at a time. Any of y'all on this site?

 

[VII]

Not Japanese Introvert that spends large quantities of their time locked in their room with a computer present.

 

[Intellect]

I think that NEETs and hikikomori are types of people we're going to see more and more in the current and future generations. Introversion is natural, whereas something like this is a symptom of larger societal problems (isolation, competition/pressure, lax parenting styles, etc.)

Relevant documentary on the topic

 

[nanook]

it happens, when a fraction does all the work that is required by the whole.

as a result, some entities become superfluous in a society that has only one purpose: production. of those, some are introverted. some get involved despite being superfluous.