No it makes us both slaves. You're the one whose nose is out of joint over someone getting free money and I have to pick up the extra cost of fixing your nose. You're effectively volunteering my money to pay for the extra costs Hugh Segal described. I'd rather explore alternatives. Call it workfare if you like. I just think reducing the moral angst is probably as important as reducing the economic cost. We're going to have to shed our moral issues with people getting free stuff at some point with the rise of automation, robots and the redundancy of human workers.
What else are we supposed to do, just scrape them off? How much will that cost?
I think everyone healthy person of working age should work and chip in their contribution to society. Even if it's 3 days a week, people need something to do. People need a reason to get up in the morning. It is part of the human condition since the dawn of mankind. We are not adapted to have long-term vacations. My parents went bonkers in retirement. They were extremely hardworking people but had nothing to do. I tried to get them to do more things but they became set in their ways as old people do, and so they sat every day together and drank. Their mental health and physical health without a doubt deteriorated because of it. I don't think subsidizing this environmental condition is good for anyone especially working age healthy people. My parents were retired, they had their own money they earned to do whatever they wanted, including drinking, nobody could stop them nor should they.
If you think society would be better off with everything automated and all of us able to do whatever we wanted (including nothing at all) I'm telling you that i firmly believe you're incorrect. It is not utopia, well it would be fun for a short while but would then turn into hell. It would be one of the worst things to ever happen to society. It would drastically quicken the decadence in our society that's already occurring. Western society has reach the peak and is slowly regressing back down the hill. We are all obese and full of depression and anxiety. There is such thing as too much of a good thing.