Excellent point!
It all starts with the School lunch program.
Then scholarships, student loans, more free lunches, more free stuff, and then the ultimate: “NO! I don’t want to ‘WORK’ as I am to well educated for that, I want YOU to give ME what I deserve, which is a high-paying J - O - B ! “
I have seen people like that. They don't want a job, they just want a check.
One was asking my wife what sort of work there was in the area (Western North Dakota Oil Patch) and the question he kept repeating was "Do you have to get dirty?" (Sheesh!)