This is why I am in favour of a Minimum Guaranteed Income program. I love work and there are so many others, that feel the same way, that there would not be a shortage of workers, especially with automation rapidly replacing very SKILLED workers. I hate bumping into the constant parade of panhandlers. GIS would eliminate most social services, reduce police forces and the number of prisons and, as a real benefit, strengthen LOCAL small free enterprise. Some right wing economists calculate a minimum wage as a net cash savings. Research also show that very little would go towards extra boose or drugs, most poor people are just poor, not drug addicts.