Along with the ideological rhetoric of freedom, opportunity, and individual achievement, the dole is designed to provide for people's minimum needs and prevent the poor from claiming their right to a just share of the nation's wealth. A negative tax must be combined with the right to productive employment. If not, it would only perpetuate welfare status for those who cannot find a niche within the economy. Everybody should obtain his or her share of social production through work. This can be done either by increasing economic activity, thereby creating jobs for everybody, or by sharing present jobs.
Economists consider the former to be the proper route to full employment.
But when much of present employment is wasted, this is illogical. Modern industrial technology is so productive that, when a society is fully capitalized and its infrastructure is developed, productively employing everybody forty hours a week is impossible. Even as they foresee extreme social pressures from a limited number of workers producing all society's needs, they are as hesitant to challenge the excess rights of property and the upper class as others were in the past. Idle people must be entertained and it will be difficult to provide the resources to structure that time, let alone provide that all-important identity, dignity, and self respect.