And someone who brings home $400 a week in most areas can not afford to live on their own.
So, its not a matter os laziness - its economic reality and basic math.
If they can’t afford to live on their own, they should find several similar-situation roommates. Also, why stop at working 40 hours per week? There are 168 hours per week available to each of us. Give 8 hours per day for sleep, 2 1/2 hours per day for eating and 1 hour per day of personal hygiene that leaves about 87 1/2 hours for work each week...earning $$$$$. Let’s say you pull together a few part time jobs for 60 hours per week at $10 per hour. That would be $600 per week times 52 weeks in a year...voila: $31,200 per year. That isn’t living in the gutter and eating scraps of garbage off the street thrown out by the “privileged” as they drive by in their Mercedes.
Of course when you only want to do want you want to do, when you only want to work for 35-40 hours each week and when you only want to work if you get paid what YOU think you’re worth, that changes the equation. I guess for those folks, 99 weeks of unemployment, their parent’s spare room and other welfare programs look pretty good.
Now, I am not heartless. I am speaking here of young people 18+ through 25 or so who haven’t launched as yet (the original topic of this thread).