Why work? The Fed can keep printing money, and an ever shrinking proportion of the population can fund the lifestyles of everyone else. What could go wrong??
I think that when someone finds out about the true scope of what federal entitlement largess is out there for them if they only submit their hopes, their dreams, and their wills a whole new kind of slothful peace comes over them, and they really want for nothing basic.
EITC, SNAP, WICs, Section 8, TANF, Medicaid, SSI, SSDI (for those willing to give The Cochran Firm a cut) and a myriad of other covertly funded government programs though utility companies, etc. For a middle income former working American, that entitlement bounty can often be more in realizable spendable income than they had when they slogged out the 9-5 grind. Under these circumstances, why in the hell would any of them want to work?