It is a real problem.
Paying people to do nothing is one of the most expensive aspects of "welfare"......and it isn't really welfare at all, for without a purpose in life people become even more dispirited and self centred.

Like our monolithic industries of the sixties, people them selves are beginning to become obsolete, other than to be part of an even more monolithic and dispiriting "service sector", with little job satisfaction .....or even wealth generation.

As I have said many times, the culture of "self" has been encouraged, but only a tiny minority can ever achieve what they aspire to.
In place of achievement we are doled out personal social rights, completely meaningless in the real world, but designed to placate the intellectually challenged while the fabric of society crumbles around them,
Society is the only thing that can save us, but it must be a sane sustainable society which can give everyone a purpose and a reason to start giving, rather than forever taking.

The culture of "victimhood" should be banished.