>No it is not. I personally care about people being able to do what they want with their free time. Just tranq them all with a guaranteed supply of opiates the

>No it is not. I personally care about people being able to do what they want with their free time. Just tranq them all with a guaranteed supply of opiates then. Problem solved. People's needs and wants are socially conditioned. It's not like their "wants" just sprang out of thin air. They were created by the culture and social expectations around them. And many of those social expectations make people feel obligated to feel useful. That means they need to be provided with avenues where they can feel useful instead of doping themselves with addictions to fill the sense of purposeless anomie that they fall into when alienated from public life. Make work programs, like urban forestry or gardening, are good ways to do this as they beautify the spaces where we live and are unlikely to be done adequately without some societal coordination.