People who were randomly picked out of obscurity for their physical prowess as if by a luck of the draw (whether you think that's the draw of catching that particular recruiter on that particular day, or the genetic lottery) - are then going to take a sympathetic view of the chaos and the gamble of life with wealth they perhaps feel was bestowed upon them by luck of the draw and hence take an "easy come, easy go" attitude towards....
...and you think that's "degenerate" rather than considering the individual who has gone through a similar process to their own success, on top of usually being a young person when handed that life style and usually it's a lifestyle that requires risk taking bravado to be successful in anyways.
.... you're going to take all those hidden lessons in their narrative, that big wins come from luck of the draw, that risking it all is part of "the game" they're playing in life, and that they even when young, don't have to seek wiser counsel because they richer than their parents at a young age... Take all that and reduce it down to "theys just degenerate"... Like your not even going to consider that maybe they're just laying down a message life has been sending them sociologically...
...well, I don't think much of that viewpoint, that anything is as simple as stamping someone "a degenerate type" and moving on. Pathology has the word "path" in it for a reason.