Are deliberately unemployed people a drain on society?

[All Along The Watchtower]

What about the Forbes 400 or whomever? Aren't they, in a sense, "deliberately unemployed"? /trollpost

But seriously...I agree with Antonio, to an extent.  Obviously not everyone can live like an upper-middle class Westerner, but I don't think that is what people really are demanding when they say they want basic access to food, health care, education, etc.-the things that go into a basically adequate (if not necessarily comfortable) standard of living.

And yes, the problem of unequal distribution must be addressed for this to happen.