* On Switzerland Generation Basic Income Referendum —“If unemployment goes up, that’s a great thing,” says Daniel Straub, the coordinator of the referendum effort and author of The Liberation of Switzerland. “Because we should see unemployment as freeing people up to pursue what creates meaning for them.” Adds Enno Schmidt, a painter and documentary film producer who’s campaigned for the idea since 2006: “It’s not societally very efficient if people are forced to do something that they don’t really want to do.”
I want to be able to eat and live indoors...so I want to do that which enables me to do so...so I do something someone else wants and is willing to give me some resources if I do it for them. I am free to not do it, I just don’t get the resources if I’m not helpful or useful.
I agree with you because I believe in trading value for value. A Society thrives on Earned Success and personal responsibility.
OTOH, Those who demand resources believe they can use force to receive their ‘rights’* (or basic needs of food, shelter, health care, education, job or just money) which leads to their freedom from want.
*BTW, A Right is the permission to pursue not a claim to another’s property or talents.