Plenty of corporate drones, upper middle class, millionaires and billionaires have done the devil&#x27;s work with 12hr+ work days, they just do it on such a grand scale and under the protection of corporations they are rarely punished.<p>While moving to a basic income might require a shift in society&#x27;s values, it&#x27;s no more likely to cause criminal behavior than the ever increasing income disparity here in the U.S.  A basic income would also likely usher in a new age of entrepreneurship once members of all economic classes can entertain the thought of doing work they love rather than forced to take any work they can get.<p>But I guess it&#x27;s better to just quote a folklore and pretend the idleness is bad (of course Donal Trump got an education because he could readily afford it, didn&#x27;t make him less wrong).