True, but why work when so much of what one makes is taken by the government? In many cases, it doesn’t pay to work Sad, but that’s where we are now.
You are off-point. You are just giving excuses for *why* people choose to not work.
The bigger point is that the oilfield jobs are there for everyone unemployed today.
If you want to work and move to any of the oil zones in Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, et al, then you will be hired and you will be paid more than $60,000/year even without a college degree.
The jobs are there.
The excuses to not work them are also there.
Unemployment today is a lifestyle choice (oh look, “I” get free Section 8 rent for a free apartment, free foodstamps, free cash for having kids, unemployment, Social Security “disability” checks, etc.).
People who aren’t working are choosing to ignore the massive tens of thousands of high-paying oilfield jobs that are going unfilled due to so few job applicants.
That’s very different from a crappy economy that has no jobs.
This economy has the oilfield jobs.