In an era of encroaching neoliberalism where the market economy and privatization are dominating ever more of-economic, social, and personal-life, how do youth imagine the human world around them and what kinds of attachments or detachments with others do they forge? Given that the modernist hope in the future and progressive prosperity has diminished if not totally ruptured in recent years-and this, strikingly so in Japan in its post-Bubble unease-youth are caught in a cipher of "futurelessness" where many say they can barely imagine a world or time beyond the present. How does such a time-freeze play out in the affective investments children form-or don't form-with others and how, in turn, does the affective geometry of their lives get impacted by, and impact itself, the immaterial labor so critical to capitalism today? That is, what kind of sociality-ties to family, work, peers, self-is productive of capitalism today and how are kids contributing to or getting configured in this social economy? Representing very initial research, the paper is primarily a think piece, meant to address the sociality-or what the press often claims is the lack, loss, or violation of sociality-of youth today by asking what kind of sociality (or affective attachments, affective labor) accompanies the logic of the neoliberal market which, in turn, shapes or is shaped by kids. The focus is on Japanese teenagers in the first decade of the new millennium, and centers on ties made-or broken-with family, questioning the relevance of "family" and, alternatively, other affective relations, to a capitalism increasingly geared to the production less of things than of the immateriality of information, communication, and affect.