Un-work ethic

We had a conversation last night with someone that I have known for eight or nine years, who was trying to convince me that there was no need to work. I have always known that she is a hard-core non-worker, and that she does lots of different things, some of which happen to earn her some money, and that as long as she has beer funds she seems happy. I have no problem with this at all.

However, when I tried to explain that part of the reason I work is that I can, and I have education and skills that are useful to others, she didn't get it at all. She just couldn't understand why people would want to work at all,and ascertained that you didn't need money. It was pointed out to her that apart from anything else, there was the mortgage on the house to pay. She conceded that this required dosh, but then said if we paid the house off that there would no longer be a need to work. Okay, what about holidays and stuff? She said is she wanted to go on holiday she would get some kind of a job and save up. She also gets her clothes from charity shops and her top price to pay for a jumper would be £4. Fine, we said, but for this economics to work, someone else had to have bought the jumper at full price in the first place and eventually donate it to the charity shop. This she conceded, and then she saw our point that some of us did have to work.
It's quite funny I think what strangeness people think, what little grasp they have of how the economy and the world work. What do they fill their days with? Or their heads?