Friends tell 26-year-old who has never had a job and lives at home with his low-income parents that it's morally wrong for him not to seek employment: 'I have anxiety.'

It's time for him to move out.It's all too common for young people to fail to launch. Last year, Fortune reported that 4 million Gen Zers are NEETs, which means they aren't in education, employment, or training. They aren't working or going to school, so more often than not, they're sitting at home doing nothing, which isn't great for them, their parents, or society at large. The reasons for failure to launch are varied, depending on the young adult and their family structure. Many young people who fail to launch blame the economy. They got an engineering or computer science degree because they were told those were stable fields that would lead to immediate employment after graduation. Unfortunately, everyone else in the country got the exact same advice, so there is a surplus of graduates who can all do the exact same thing. That reality, coupled with the emergence of AI and uncertainty about its future in the tech industry, means many STEM graduates can't find jobs in their fields after graduation, leaving them working in retail and unable to move out of their parents' house. Many young computer science graduates have given up on coding and tech altogether, even though they have…

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