In a perfect world where we're all purely independent actors with guaranteed housing, food, education, you're right, the current system is great. But unfortuna

In a perfect world where we're all purely independent actors with guaranteed housing, food, education, you're right, the current system is great. But unfortunately we have decided to tie your ability to stay alive to your job, so until we fix that we should have safety nets in place so that companies can't ruin their employees lives at a whim.