He may have debts that build up anyway if he used to make much more than 9 dollars a day. If he wouldnt have any debt and doesnt proceed to look for other options, he truly is a moron.

Sounds more like laziness than pride to me.

Sounds a lot like the people that get out of college and spend years unemployed because they want a flooded job, and since they have no work experience at all no one wants them, but if they took a job they become more interesting to employers. As a hiring manager you show me huge gaps of employment/school/service on you application or resume you may not get the interview to begin with.

You never know for sure when you can get another job. If you're actively looking and are offered one that doesn't pay enough in your mind, regardless of how much longer you can go without, it's better to just take that and keep looking for a better one in the meantime than risk not finding another job until well after your savings are depleted.

If he could have gotten a better, well paying job then maybe OP wouldn't have had to help him in the first place.

Not true. If you were making 40k and just got laid off, you'd be getting more in unemployment payments for the next year than you'd earn making $9/hr, and have the time and energy to find a full time job instead of losing your benefits and spending all your time on a job that doesn't pay anything close to what you should be earning in your field. We don't know what's happened. OP could just be horning in on a situation they don't understand.

That only equates to about $6.50 in the US. $9 in the US would be about $12 in Australia.

In the, 9 AUD would be below the federal minimum wage.

I know the difference, starters at McDonalds get about 12,, 13 AUD