When I was a kid, unless you were rich it was a shameful thing for an able-bodied man not to have a job, and no job was considered beneath oneself if you needed money to live. Doubly so if you had a family to take care of. Somewhere around my late teens, which incidentally was when hippiedom was in full flower, it became first a joke, then almost a badge of honor not to have a job. It's come a full 180 degrees now and people who work unskilled or labor-intensive yet productive jobs are looked upon as suckers by the Left, while squeezing every penny available out of the entitlement system is a worthy goal.
Gee, thanks Liberals, for one more contribution to the decline of Western civilization.