See the thread “hipsters on foodstamps”.
These folks aren’t experiencing consequences for being unproductive citizens. They are able to live their “hip” lives without the accompanying poverty. This is the goal of liberalism, at the sheeperal level - to make unproductive (ie, lazy) lifestyles feasible at the expense of others.
Those people always existed (”starving artists”); I’m referring to the people who used to work until they were outsourced/downsized/laid off, and now have no discretionary income. They knew a better life, and are now idled; they see no light at the end of the tunnel.