Not really, FRiend.
I'm talking more about human nature and the built in desire to be something more than an ingestor.
She looks at the socio-political considerations but I think this is more about being the person one can be.
That doesn't simply go away because of a welfare state. If it did, wouldn't there be more satisfaction on the part of those "helped" by the "war on poverty"?
Yet they're never satisfied or happy.
What you describe is a result if nurture, not nature and has effectively been “bred out” through generations of welfare. Young people in these families have never known anyone with a job. But they know all about ingestion.