There&#x27;s a very relevant section in this book ( The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;1KFJ1Iu" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;1KFJ1Iu</a> ) , that I just read last night:<p>&gt; &quot;His view is strongly supported by the work of economist Andrew Oswald, who found that joblessness lasting six months or longer harms feelings of well-being and other measures of mental health about as much as the death of a spouse, and that little of this decline is due to the loss of income; instead, it arises from a loss of self-worth.&quot;<p>The idea being that a basic income is fine, but having people sit around idle probably isn&#x27;t.