George Costanza, the hapless friend of Jerry Seinfeld in his self titled sitcom, was a fairly lazy man. His goal in life was to get paid a healthy salary for doing as little work as possible. In one episode George is unemployed. He likes being unemployed and living off the government dole. It gives him a lot of freedom and he is content to sit around and not look for a job. But a problem crops up when he is asked to prove that he is actually looking for work or else lose his unemployment benefits. George then concocts a scam instead of actually doing what he should be doing which is looking for work and doing something useful.