Whether freeloading is admirable or not depends on how one is brought up and what sort of society one grows up in.
If being a worker = being a loser, or if it is nothing else than an endless exercise in mortification, humiliation, and alienation...then no one will want to work much, and being a freeloader will be sought-after.
It's like Carrol says -- it's about what sort of human beings are created by social relations.
-- It's about education and how mental skills (symbolic manipulation) are always raised over all other skills. --It's about gender differences and the way in which the "mere recreation of life" -- as if life can ever by simply recreated -- is always devalued. --It's about the cult of individualism. --It's about the worship of novelty and the fear of the new
...it's about a lot of things. Where are the cultural and educational manifestos? The bourgeois revolution had its Rousseau, etc. All that work done in the sixties -- Tillich, some of the anthropologists, the situationists, some of the psychologists ....all this needs to be worked through into something that a would-be revolutionary can use.
Joanna