&quot;Because <i>this</i> time, incentives won&#x27;t play out the way they have every time variations on this experiment have been tried throughout history&quot;<p>or<p>&quot;Let&#x27;s make earning a living optional, and funded by the productive members of society, and see how that pans out&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ll grant you it&#x27;ll be easier and cheaper to implement than other versions of a taxpayer funded welfare state, but I imagine the outcomes will be the same, and the (im)morality is no different.