&gt; <i>Providing a base minimal level of living for each person tends to produce nice societies. What people with money get in return for supporting the deadbeats is definitely worth the, not large, cost. </i><p>Hate to do this to you, but if you were on the other side of the issue someone would have asked, and I honestly haven&#x27;t seen data on it. Do you have any stats&#x2F;facts&#x2F;references to back this up? To be blunt, I&#x27;m just old enough that I remember societies that tried this, and in their implementations it drove everybody&#x27;s standard of living toward what we would consider poverty, so I am expressing a bit of doubt here. <i>&quot;They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work&quot;</i> (old Soviet political joke).