His companion is "taking" that which he neither earned or deserves from others like us who do contribute.

I would venture, for these people, there's a strong quadrilateral valence of indolence, piosity, misery and inauthenticity that orbits a nucleus of acquiescence by the majority, in a culture where nihilism is a twisted virtue. Where rational positions and words are allowed to offend someone, but the imposition itself gives the very same people a false sense of meaning to their lives.

That is sort of out of body because it requires others to feed the crazies center of gravity; to feel important for living in mom's basement and having no real sense of accomplishment.

Their accomplishment is to avoid accomplishment by virtue of either acceptance or encouragement externally, with no effort. They can remain in a safe "virtual reality" of a mental state, where the void is filled by being a net "taker". They require this from without, because they lack a key to a healthy human mind and body:

PURPOSE

They seek getting their essence tickled outside of their body, because in our culture, it's become acceptable to be a loser and joy kill.