The true loser is someone who is inactive only by default, i.e., because he's failed in his bid to get ahead in society. Bousquet, who wrote that "My life is externally the life of a reject, and I wouldn't want it any other way," is an excellent example of the "beautiful loser," that highly evolved species whose members are doomed to failure, but who embrace their fate with joy. See: GOOD-FOR-NOTHING.