Their entitled boredom unfortunately translates into vehemence and harm against others that deign to criticize their useless existence. Any hint of proposing they actually earn what they get is met with vitriol and arrogant defiance. Our leader and his ilk perpetuate it with their pitiful accommodation.
I wholly agree. They need GOD. They don't need Allah, they don't need the Messiah - they need GOD. But they won't get a leader who doesn't even know what that is unless it is his image in the mirror.
I think upside-selling will be suitable. That it’s worth it to go to the bother of pursuing an enterprise that does not deal in misery and degradation. “You ought to earn...” is going to fall flat if they put their hope in the Enemy. They see this in a purely humanistic framework and of course it sounds like nonsense in that framework.
“You can gain great dignity by...” points, if indirectly, to God.
“God loves you and YET, He wants you to love Him more than you do now, and He wants to make that possible if you are willing to walk through the trials that will take.”
That is, I believe, the key or very close to it. I do robustly affirm that Christianity is a valid explanation of how this takes place. God undergoing visible agony for the sake of love, and yet insisting that love BE love. He isn’t interested in being a sugar daddy for a devil.