it's not absolutely true, no, but it's generally true. to fuck off and not work for years, generally requires inherited wealth. normal people need income, because they don't have inherited wealth.

a lot of trust fund rich kids are pretend poor. tons of them in my city work work service jobs while they wait for their trusts to mature because it's 'authentic' and not 'working for the man, man'. meanwhile they turn 30/35 and you see them a few years later and suddenly they are telling you about their properties they rent...

[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I used to work in the ski industry. Almost everyone I knew was a drug-addled hippy who would work from August to March, then take seasonal unemployment and dick around all summer. Follow Phish, play in their own bands, or just do whippits in grocery store parking lots. And these weren't just college kids or anything. Most of it was guys who'd been doing the exact same thing every year for fifteen or twenty years.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

right, people who don't need employment to live. it's an optional thing they do. precisely my point.

lots of trust fund types of people work part time for extra money or fun. that's very different than someone who needs to work full time year round to pay their bills.