Alternatively, because being a functional and happy member of modern society is predicated on full time employment (for health care, if nothing else), then ther

Alternatively, because being a functional and happy member of modern society is predicated on full time employment (for health care, if nothing else), then there is enormous pressure to create these employments for people. If we were to engage in universal welfare, we'd remove a false feedback signal and allow ourselves to focus on what actually creates value rather than what pays rent, food, essential health care and education. I don't think there is much debate that not giving people access to those things is bad. But we seem strangely averse to just making them part of the core of our society.