Every single part of this is a red flag for the "failure to launch" crowd. Welcome to professional victimhood.
> They got a master's degree but didn't learn anything about how interest works?
I don't know where and when it started, but the advanced degree is the cherry on top-- people with no need for them seeking advanced degrees to delay adulthood another four years. They rarely have jobs in the interim, because someone else is footing the bill.
> But they do nothing quickly, it's like their neurons don't fire. They'll spend 30 minutes in a dazed state trying to figure out how to arrange groceries in a single bag.
Nah, their neurons are firing. They got a Master's, remember? Or are advanced degrees actually that worthless that we give them out to people this braindead?
They're quick to respond to "triggers," and very quick to point out anything you do that could be problematic to someone in a remote region of Laos. They don't miss a fucking beat to detect transgressions of others.
Bagging groceries isn't as exciting as scrolling Instagram, so they put as little effort into it as possible. If they get fired, they get unemployment, or can try to make a discrimination claim for someone not respecting which pronouns they were wearing on Tuesday.
You'll find these types on /r/illnessfakers and /r/maliciouscompliance deliberately sabotaging anything they're expected to do for themselves so they can throw themselves into their safety net (usually parents, other times e-begging).
Provocation and lying by omission (crybullying) is the name of the game. See also the "parents threw me out for being gay" crowd. Never get involved until you've dragged the kid back to their house (they will fight and resist, hard, alleging violence, but you as a witness should only help their case, right?)-- you'll often find their room intact and worried parents waiting for their return. Anyone who legitimately hates their kids will throw them and every memory of them out into the street, like dogshit-- and be quite transparent about why. That's what hatred looks like.
The precursor will have been being asked to stop bringing up the subjects of enemas and anal prolapse at the dinner table, at which point they cried oppression and ran away.