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Anyone in the west can easily be idle and afford an OK standard of living.

How?

Take a drive through any low income urban area or trailer park. Huge numbers of people who don't work. They milk welfare and so forth. The only reason these areas seem to afford a lousy standard of living is because your neighbors would be violent morons. The problem isn't lack of resources. There are large hasidic communities of unemployed people who mostly milk benefits and they have built rather nice neighborhoods.

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