A lot, though, are middle to late-middle-aged men who are simply refusing to work jobs they feel are beneath them—either in task or pay.
I know one, an attorney with several degrees, who has been looking for work now for a decade, sending out resumes for jobs employers don’t want to hire him for and saying how he can’t afford to take a lower-skill, lower-pay job in the meantime.
Women who have held corporate office jobs - especially if they gained some "management" title or another due to political correctness - behave exactly the same way. We have hired a few of those to work in our retail stores in the recent past. Never again.