The work issue is tricky. It used to be that humans lived in small groups where nobody had a job but everybody had a place and contributed to group survival, probably why conservatives are so big on tribalism. Then, with the advent of agriculture and settlements, people specialized and differentiated. What you were to do in life even became hereditary, with some born to be kings or gods with work becoming a sacred duty.. now we have all the remnants of a culture programmed full of the lure of ego satisfaction that is attributed to earning ones own living and not enough jobs for all who want them.
Liberals, having a thing, more about justice and equality, and less about authority, respect for culture, and group identity, are more aware of the plight of the unemploye. This concern for the less advantaged, the jobless, gets turned into the notion that liberals love people who don't support themselves, because conservatives who do have jobs still think they work for God. They are conditioned to be proud of the sacred sacrifice they make called work. They are not aware that being proud of how miserably they are willing to suffer isn't a good idea.
Perhaps the robots will save us from this if they don't decide they are supporting worthless sponges, and put us out of our misery.
Anyway, no point in being angry with hin. He is full of unexamined sacred cows and they lead him around like he has the nose ring. He acquired his morality by being humiliated for being lazy and memory of that pain would have to awaken before his capacity to empathize with the humiliated could return. He reflexively avoids that pain. It wont help you not to feel any for him. Don't let the heartless, and the pain they will not feel harden your own heart. They live an emotionally dulled life., to joy as well as suffering. Suffer and you will not suffer. Love you.