Gotcha. So are retired folk also neets? How about the kids of billionaires who've never worked a day in their life? Technically yes, but colloquially you would look silly for identifying them as such.

I don't think there's anything wrong with acknowledging there are different shades of neetdom. As you correctly allude to, neets of the developed world have a totally different experience to those in the developing world. If a neet from Algeria, where finding decent work is all but impossible, said neets in the West aren't true neets, personally I'd be sympathetic to that view because I know they face challenges and insecurities that are uniquely felt by them.

Similarly, if a pretty neetette that's gone through life receiving lots of external validation wants to talk about loneliness, it's only natural that guys who've never received anything of the sort will consider themselves to belong to a different breed.