Reading an article about idleness and mental health on a blogging platform inspired this topic and how I think crypto could help to some extent, though it's been a long chain of thought for me, whenever I see young chaps(Mostly Gen Z) on social media just ranting and venting to inconsequential things, it irks me. Idleness is one of the worst things that could happen to anyone, but not been able to find a solution to it is much worse.
Not every idle individuals could help it, I speak from my experience with the pandemic and how it drastically affected my Haulage services(a startup that I was grooming with my partner my big brother). Also recall, millions if not billions thrown out of jobs without anything they could do about it, someone are still struggling till now and staying all day without doing anything have a tow on the mind and mental health.
Now, supposing these individuals who is idle(involuntarily and voluntary idleness inclusive now) every time and does nothing to improve that condition since they do not have any where to go or work to do. Then they do not keep themselves busy, nor do they performs any mental activity to keep their mind and brain busy, that idleness often inclined towards evil deeds, and that often leads to depression and anxiety because there is nothing that keeps such minds at work, nothing to do, no task to perform except wallowing in self pity.
Meanwhile, there are lots of tasks that could be done and these individuals could earn from on the cryptospace, yet they focuse too much on the things that make them mentally incapable and disoriented. Some things can't be controlled, like the scenarios I highlighted in the first paragraph. Hence it is essential to engage the brain and the mind when there seems to be nothing to do, there are activities in the cryptosphere where your mind is better used to keep you healthy and at the same time earns you crypto that could blow your mind away.
Recently, I was having a discussion with a protégé, and we talked about the downside of social media. Some people's mind has been distorted with what they see on many social platforms. These set of people who engage on social media with all the negativity all day have their mental health tampered with, these has decrease their mental happiness and subliminally makes them fall into depression. Seeing people who live fake lives and wishing you could imitate it is dangerous, it's the top reasons young people fall into depression over nothing.
From my perspective, I would recommended airdrop hunting, reading about crypto or new projects and dapps, NFT hunting etc. These could help the ones out of job and seems hopeless, but hasn't given up. Keeping your mind busy to some extent and at the same time earning seems like two antidotes that only a few have been able to hack.
Thankfully for some of us on @Hive,Leofinance and the likes, there isn't any much reason to be idle because you can earn from engagement which could put food on anyone's table, cloth them or even pay rents in some people's case. These are from my own past and present experience and I am very sure that will help cos I have been there before, if it works for me and others, it should work for anybody else too!