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Originally Posted by blankall

You might keep working, but there are lot of people who wouldn't. As it stands now, there already are many able bodied people who avoid working and collect various forms of social assistance. The more you increase "welfare" the more incentive you provide to avoid working.

You're also speaking from the perspective of an upwardly mobile individual. What if your career prospectives involved mopping floors or moving boxes?

I agree, that most of the people would continue working. It only takes a small proportion quitting their jobs to totally upset everything. It leads to a cycle where productivity is decreased, goods become less avaialble, inflation sets in, more people go off work, etc...

Sources?