Yes. As for why, why not? If you can it's probably the single best was to live life. Most jobs are entirely unfulfilling, unnecessary bullshit jobs that stack even more unfulfilling, unnecessary bullshit on top of it. the important work is, like, maybe a tenth of all actual work done and that's still usually done by people who get treated like shit, sucking out whatever meaning they might be able to find.

Education is good, but left to their own devices most humans will educate themselves to some degree, so it's not like NEET necessarily means a lack of self improvement either. Not that that's the only measure of a good life.

And that's before taking into account mental health issues that our society creates.