Why should they?  I like my work even though I don&#x27;t like working. I think it&#x27;s depressing to think that a technologically utopian humanity would insist on work as a requirement to live.<p>From a public policy standpoint, paying people to essentially stay at home and be passive consumers can be quite beneficial. They aren&#x27;t supporting themselves through crime and they&#x27;re placated to the degree that they won&#x27;t want to protest the establishment. And if they want anything more out of life than the basics, they&#x27;ll have to work for it. Living on welfare alone (even if it&#x27;s nationally guaranteed) doesn&#x27;t sound like attractive mate material to me.<p>Exception: could result in poorly handled out of wedlock births. Possible mitigation by increasing benefits to incentivize birth control?