We can’t keep punishing people for not finding jobs which don’t actually exist.

Ah I get the appeal!
Can be fun to really stretch a system you know well

I can’t wait for suburban kids to take his advice and hang out in shopping centres and parks because there’s no youth centres or libraries in walking distance just for every Facebook brained psycho to say there’s more YOUTH CRIME IN THE SUBURBS

Are they self sabotaging? Or desiring the arms race?

its just not that serious and that goes both ways and if someone's treating it as a Serious Thing the problem isn't really finding the Right Game For Them so much as it is resolving why they need the Correct Activity to enjoy their homies company and that's out of our paygrade puggalos

There used to be distinct cultures within hobbies and entertainment as a norm, and I think it's just generally bad and depressing that everything is an artless intellectual property slurry being heaped into the trough for the oinking hogs.