Let's back to basics. How do we cover the needs of one person? Better, how do we cover only the need for food? You need to produce rice, beans and meat. How do you produce all that? A lot of ways ... but you need to produce. And that word alone is the problem here.
The moment someone stops producing, he is a burden. He must be carried on by someones else production. The government does not produce anything. The moment he starts handing over cash to people who do not produce, he is transferring the production of someone who works hard to someone who does not.
You want to help those people? Pay them to study, get some skills. Pay then to clean the streets or the public bathrooms.
But for God sake, do not pay them to do nothing. It's unfair with the rest of those who actually work really hard for this handed cash.
People out of work is not that way because they're lazy.
They're that way because the only jobs they can get are jobs that will have them work all day long for a pay that won't even cover their basic needs.
Human exploitation in several forms is all too real and happening right next to each one of us, and almost no one seems to recognize it.
Do you want to give them jobs? Fine. But don't provide minimum wage that will make them have to work 70 hours a week just to make ends meet, and want to kill themselves afterwards.
You /might/ replace 'unfair' with 'immoral'. Lots of things in life are unfair and are just a part of life, so there's a mentality that unfairness is just a part of life. Hopefully those who wish to take from those who work can see that this is theft and theft is immoral.
Productivity per worker-hour goes up as technology progresses. It's okay to take some of that increase away and use it on other people. It's a mutually beneficial setup between you and society.
The moment someone stops producing, he is a burden. He must be carried on by someones else production. The government does not produce anything. The moment he starts handing over cash to people who do not produce, he is transferring the production of someone who works hard to someone who does not.
You want to help those people? Pay them to study, get some skills. Pay then to clean the streets or the public bathrooms.
But for God sake, do not pay them to do nothing. It's unfair with the rest of those who actually work really hard for this handed cash.