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38, never had a job, about to get one or starve. Sink or swim, parasite. You don't need a plan, you just start hitting up all the grocery stores, fast food joints and temp agencies before your supply of ramen runs out. Temp agencies will send anyone with a pulse to stack product on pallets at whatever factories are local.
Some people have disabilities, they might not be visible. Truth is even they have needs and to say "sink or swim" reeks of cynicism and plain hatred for humans and closing one's eyes to the human condition. You say that he should just go to work. As if people exist in a vacuum and can apply for jobs and get them. It's clear that he has issues, guy has not been able to work. You can't seriously believe that the system will want to employ him.
you push someone with mental disabilities (untreated adhd/ocd/anxiety/whatever) into low-wage labor and they just end up as contestants on /publicfreakout/ or tiktok, when they invariably get into a fight with the manager or customer or whatever.
then all the privileged yuppies on the internet can critique their behavior and the situation to determine who's right and wrong.
that's our culture. we're already in some dystopian hellhole but most of it is so subtle and outside the lines of 'normal thinking' that people don't notice it.
A lot of it is because people take reality for granted and to arrive at the whys is difficult because there exists a whole industry that legitimises the present state of things. Think of Fox news, or the Washington Post, or the Guardian – who would rather want more competent people in charge of an inherently antirationalist system than to fully overcome it. As more and more people are immiserated they will gain the knowledge of the absurd contradictions that have been considered normal and desire to supersede their masters. So in this culture there is a fragment of overcoming the metastability of infinite growth and so on.