[onos]

I have similar extended family. They are very entitled and lazy. When they are given things, they don’t take care of them and they basically go to shit. They aren’t mean spirited but somehow lack all drive to take care of themselves. Without our social safety net, they’d either live off of family or simply die.

This is true on both sides of my family. Somehow my parents both are hard workers and have thrived, relatively speaking.

[bbwbsb]

If individual effort doesn't produce commensurate rewards people learn to minimize effort instead of maximize reward, though individual variation will exist.

Isolated laziness is an individual foible, but wide-spread laziness is a market failure.