I mean, specifically in context, I'm sure my grandfather would envy this person. The context is that he hasn't walked in almost a decade, had very low mobility for the decade prior, and had done physical labour since his teens before then. If he could choose between being stuck in a room left to his thoughts and slaving away for some disgusting corpo, he'd probably choose the latter in the blink of an eye. This (as in mine, the article is loathsome regardless) isn't a comment on capitalism, just being old and decrepit.