 This response to the fairness objection itself raises an important ethical question. Should the social minimum be enacted in a way that reflects the principle of work-conditionality? Space permits us here to consider just two of the more important sets of arguments against the principle of work-conditionality (for further, empirically informed discussions, see Watts and Fitzpatrick 2018, Dwyer 2019, Eleveld, Kampen and Arts 2020).