Go back and re-read that, but this time forget this is supposedly a grown man. Those words are those of a bratty, spoiled tween who badly needs to be grounded, his allowance taken away, and forced to get a part-time job. You are trying to have a reasonable discussion, like an adult. He is acting out. And it ends just like it does with most super bratty tweens, “what’s for dinner?”
As they used to say on the coast of Maine, “he ain’t right.”
And he ain’t.