You need money to survive. You only have two options:
1. Work at a fast food restaurant full time for a salary that is just a bit higher than the Canadian minimum wage. You don't have to pay any taxes for this job. You will be contributing to society insofar as you serve customers and bring profits to the boss.
or
2. Stay unemployed. Collect Unemployment Benefit every month equal to 67 percent of the job described in Option 1. Some people may regard you as someone who is taking advantage of the system or as a lazy person.
The idea of the hypothetical is that you're stuck with only Option 1 or Option 2 for the rest of your life (with the one exception mentioned at the very end).
You can think of the fast food job as being almost identical to work at a US McDonald's with a similar management style and with similar assignment of menial tasks. Society regards the prestige level of the job about the same as they do with the real life McDonald's job.
A main difference is that for you, the job is full time, 5 times a week gig with very long hours (there is no part time option). You get 2 days off: Sunday is a fixed Day Off; the other Day Off is something that management can re-assign (last minute) on a complete whim based on what the organisation needs. The job has a 1 week off paid vacation all year and 5 paid sick leave days.
There are little to few other benefits other than the pay (which is just slightly above Minimum Wage).
For whatever reason, you are one of the few full-timers. Aside from the managers, most of your co-workers will be part-timers (there's a lot of teenagers and youngsters who don't care that much); they aren't the most motivated and a large number of them work here because they "have to." Unlike you, they are not constrained and this is just a phase for them and they will likely in the future move on to bigger and better things.
The manager wields absolute, borderline authoritarian power over you when you're on the clock. In terms of the market, you're very easily replaceable and the hiring/firing laws are very lax. If you get fired, you are never getting this job back and you'll be stuck in Option 2 BUT with a reduced benefit package.
Career Prospects:
There is a performance review system but very few promotion options. There are no salary raises in this job UNLESS you get promoted in rank and very rarely is anyone promoted. If you get promoted in rank you become one of the fast food managers. Your pay will be increased by 25%. If promoted, you still have to work the long hours and do front-line work... but in addition you are in charge of scheduling, overseeing the other fast food employees, and being a go-to option for very very obnoxious customer complaints.
If you screw up, you can still be very easily fired (and be stuck with Option 2, incurring a penalty in the benefits received). Your screw ups may include the screw ups of those under you if you're not careful and don't cover your backside carefully.
Okay so this all sounds not so great. There's got to be a Dream right? Okay well here is it.
If you work hard, rarely make a mistake, survive the manager position for a long time, get lucky with who you meet and please, and have EXTRAORDINARY luck on top of it all... there's a chance that you will be picked for regional manager. That's where your pay will quintuple and you get to go an actual air-conditioned office in a large building. A wonderful, beautiful place with photocopiers, filing cabinets, secretaries, coffee machines, chairs, cubicles and desks. If you get there, you are free from the hypothetical and you will be completely free to compete in the capitalist job interview system just like IRL.
So then what do you choose?
Do you take the fast food job? Or do you say... "you know what? I'm just not going to work." Remember, if you choose Option 1 but mess it up, you're stuck with Option 2 forever, with a reduced benefit number. If you choose Option 1, you better do well.
Please assume that regardless of the option, you have enough money to survive. Also, assume that the ordinary day-to-day person doesn't understand your strange situation. If they see you working at the fast food they just think "oh there's a fast food employee...." they aren't aware of the fact that you're acting within the constraints of 2 options. If they see you jobless they just think "oh here's someone without a job" they aren't aware that you're choosing between fast food or no job.
Let's assume that you're not allowed to use the money to invest in anything. You must live off either the paycheck or the benefits. No start ups or side gigs.
This is a very experimental and complicated hypothetical so within the first few days, I might have to make some edits to make the scenario reflect the intended spirit of the hypothetical and its system of intended trade offs.