You don't need a job when you can mooch.
Yes because all young people are just moochers who have no ambition and want to live on their parents' largesse forever.
Not all. But enough.
Creating a culture of poverty and dependence establishes a block of voters as reliant on government and adds them to the Democratic base. It works well.
The corrupt bubble in real estate that had predatory lending as its backing created poverty without creating a 'culture' of poverty. The collapse was a certainty; I saw it coming in 2005 when financial instruments that bundled fecal loans began to reek.
My source for that conclusion was the 'Commie rag' known as
Business Week.