The notion of physical work, or lack of same, also underpins the United States’ massive illegal immigration problem. …It is merely a notion. IOW, a lie promulgated by the left, one among numerous.
Wherever there is a societal problem you will find government policy is the likely cause.
And of course, on the issue of physical work it is government policy that has made it an issue.
The great unspoken irony (tragedy?) is that the government pays subsistence to millions of able-bodied people making it unnecessary for them to work to support themselves.
In effect the government pays them to NOT work.
Then the government proclaims that a shortage of workers makes it necessary to bring in uneducated, unskilled workers to do the tasks the welfare class won't do.
As if that cultural engineering wasn't enough, we have federal and state labor laws that make it illegal for kids to work summer jobs as they did a few generations ago.
So most grow into young adults without developing a work ethic, never having an opportunity or need to work for their own spending money.