He may have a point. How many heavy work trades jobs are going unfilled, even as young men and women don’t bother looking for work. It’s way easier to work a bit and file for unemployment, or file for Social Security Disability for any number of ‘ailments’. Beats heck out of working for a living.
Well, that's true if one has no self respect, I suppose. Granted that self-respect has gone to hell for a good part of the population...
There are not many jobs in the trades going unfilled and as usual, unless there is a mandate they are going to mostly younger males who are mainly white. If you want a roofing crew at $10/hour though you can find Brazilians who’ll do it and the government will take care of all their benefits; in other words you can abet law breaking.