I know a few people who refuse to get jobs even though they are suffering financially because they can't find something they think is "worth" doing with their skill set.

I tried to tell them that having a job would mean they get to meet new people, they get to escape their financial despair, and that it would add structure and organization to their disheveled and disorganized lives. I explained that work itself has value for the worker outside of the simple return of the paycheck, the activity of being engaged completing a task having direct psychological impact on the task completer.

Both of their responses, taken months apart, boiled down to that if a day of work didn't make them so wealthy that they never had to work again it wasn't worth it for them.

So I gave up.