Because current unemployment support works on the idea that people must be scared by poverty into getting a new job, and so being unemployed is ultimately a sta

Because current unemployment support works on the idea that people must be scared by poverty into getting a new job, and so being unemployed is ultimately a state society tries to punish you out off. If simply giving people money left them more successful at getting a new job, there would really not be any point in all the CV theatre a jobseeker routinely needs to perform.