You could argue that people don’t take that into account when deciding not to work (so that I can make the world better by forcing people to work for their own benefit).
The first step would be believing that people who stop working because they don’t have to end up being less healthy, I have no idea if that’s true. It’s a bit hard to study, since interventions like “inherit a bunch of money” and “receive a UBI” mostly affect health via the channel of “now you have a bunch of money,” and that obscures any negative effect from not having to work.
(And on the other hand, comparing the employed to the unemployed is extremely confounded and I’m skeptical it gives any evidence on this question. It would be pretty surprising if people who had a harder time finding work weren’t less healthy and happy.)
The best would be to compare people receiving an unconditional transfer to people receiving a transfer with a work requirement, but I’m not aware of studies on that.
You could also have some anecdotal evidence about that. People I know who are voluntarily unemployed seem to eat and exercise better, but they are probably not representative of the people affected by a welfare work requirement.
Have you considered the harm to physical and mental health associated with unemployment?
You could argue that people don’t take that into account when deciding not to work (so that I can make the world better by forcing people to work for their own benefit).
The first step would be believing that people who stop working because they don’t have to end up being less healthy, I have no idea if that’s true. It’s a bit hard to study, since interventions like “inherit a bunch of money” and “receive a UBI” mostly affect health via the channel of “now you have a bunch of money,” and that obscures any negative effect from not having to work.
(And on the other hand, comparing the employed to the unemployed is extremely confounded and I’m skeptical it gives any evidence on this question. It would be pretty surprising if people who had a harder time finding work weren’t less healthy and happy.)
The best would be to compare people receiving an unconditional transfer to people receiving a transfer with a work requirement, but I’m not aware of studies on that.
You could also have some anecdotal evidence about that. People I know who are voluntarily unemployed seem to eat and exercise better, but they are probably not representative of the people affected by a welfare work requirement.