Anyone who has spent any time unemployed knows how soul-crushing it is. I even spent a few months being paid a full-time salary but being unable to work, and it was just as bad as being a penniless NEET. It's not about the money, it's about the fact that you don't make any contribution to society. You have no function, no purpose, and that's the kind of depression that burns straight into your soul. It's awful.
My job has its bad moments, hell it has bad entire weeks, like any other job. But every so often I get to do something that makes a genuine difference to someone. Sometimes big, sometimes small, but I solved a problem for somebody and made their life better. I can't powerlevel, but sometimes much better. That makes all the bullshit worth it. The world is better in some way because of what I do all day. That makes me sleep well at night.
Lou will never know the latter and will always know the former. Forget capitalism or the economy, this goes back to when Ug and Bog were throwing spears at antelope. We are social animals, we are biologically programmed to want the best for our tribe. Altruism is an evolutionary concept, helping each other helps us survive and thrive, and therefore the drive to contribute to the social whole is literally in our DNA. That means that parasitic lifestyles like Lou's are awful for mental health. Yes there's a biological drive to expend as little energy as possible, but for almost everyone that is counteracted by the social drive to contribute to our group (whether you are loyal to your tribe, your family, your nation or humanity as a whole).
Lou, probably in large part because he is a retard, allows his basic drive to do nothing to turn into a pathological laziness and a demand that others fund him, but it's not making him happy. He's suffering the misery of unemployment, of uselessness, of purposelessness, but he either can't identify it or refuses to identify it. He has adopted a political ideology that supports his lifestyle, but it's still fighting his basic human need to be an active group participant. The OG socialists recognised this - "from each according to his ability", but modern woke leftism tries to make a virtue of parasitism, which doesn't work on an economic or, importantly, a psychological level. That's why all these NEETs are so miserable but will defend their lifestyles with fundamentalist fervour. I know I'm risking moais for this, but it's an important point, leftism in general and this brand of leftism in particular claim that we can transcend our biology, but the fact that adherents of these beliefs have terrible mental health suggests that they're either wrong or that we haven't figured out how to leave our tribal DNA behind.
I don't think Lou is miserable because he believes these things, though. He believes these things in the hope that they will make him less miserable. Lou has extreme self-hatred, and no amount of wearing skirts or hating JK Rowling is going to help. Even Denise makes more of a contribution to other people than he does. It's not even about employment, Denise runs the house and looks after Coach and the Shield. Lou just sits in his room threatening to kill people on Disqus and masturbating to some of the most eldritch, abstract porn I've ever seen - not even porn of real people or things that are recognisable as simulacra of human beings. He is so disconnected from humanity that his sexual fantasies don't even involve it.
Lou will never see that connection between his decision to withdraw from humanity and become a parasite on it and his depression, just as he will never see the connection between his appalling diet and the fact that doctors keep having to cut bits of him off that are starting to rot. I don't know whether his sheer stupidity means that he can't make those connections, or because his extreme selfishness, laziness and fear of work mean that he actively chooses not to make those connections. But either way, Lou is going to maintain this lifestyle until it kills him. He will never learn, he will never be happy, and when he dies his pile of greasy electronics full off horrifying porn will be thrown in the dumpster and humanity will be that bit better off.
