No, I mean in a metaphoric sense--Japanese society is still largely set up for the postwar system, which produced the Miracle, the Bubble, and now the collapse. So it's a system in which by and large people are supposed to do certain things at certain times--go through school, go to college, get a job, work, retire (and I should note here that "people" = 'men'), and either your family or your company will take care of you and when it's over both you, your company and the country have been enriched. Of course things don't work that way anymore, on the macro or micro levels, but societal expectations haven't changed. So to be a NEET, and step off that escalator, is to be criminal in the sense of opposing society.