>>13205388>if the current state is happy and content, why change it? why strive for more?Because happiness and accomplishment is a high like heroin. And it is also more than just striving, a lot of these people need to work to ultimately not be poor and have shittier lives, even though working makes them feel shittier. Why NOT strive for more, is a more understandable question. I don't really understand the confusion. You also would wisely want to be higher on the hill, aka, even happier, if you don't need it because shitty things can come up and happen to you and it helps to have a buffer. You might as well have said >why work?
>yes anon, if you have some shred of empathy and decency you will strive to not dishonor your parentsYou cannot make anyone (who is a blank slate, has nothing worth anything to them in their life) do anything through just shame. They might do it because they care about their parents though, which is not the same thing. The fact that you can't motivate people to want something by pointing a gun at their head, but potentially can if you hand them a gun and tell them to rob the next nearby bank of a billion dollars, is the whole point that summarizes why neets in OP's image don't just get up and do their work. There was not a positive change to their happiness by doing what they need to do, so why would they do it?
In other words, a rat will run very quickly through a maze to get cheese at the end, but it will be quite sluggish to finish the maze if the reward is that they WON'T be deprived of food that day.
