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You're missing two dimensions in your analysis:

1: The possibility that some people that are currently contributing (by having a job, even if it's not a great job, and takes care of themselves) choose a life of no positive activity. I don't know what the calculus is, but they're not balanced out by just any >0 number of people choosing to improve society.

2: That when at least some of those people on long term passive income receive a good, solid kick in the butt (in terms of expiring benefits), they are, in fact, able to turn their lives around and become contributing members of society.



Guess all we can do is look at the evidence where this has been tried.

It's my understanding that it looks good. Seems that more people are caught in the benefits trap than choose to actually be there.




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