Especially when "people" are young, single men.

seems to have helped everyone in this board during yours childhood and teen years, when you could just play games and learn to code, which became most people here trade. but yeah, if you missed that by not being born rich, work until your back break, to build character or some other bs.

If you are playing games and learning to code, you are not bored and definitely not the type of young men I was talking about.

you probably will not be able to complete that sentence without being called racist, xenophobic or both.

Or, you could simply pay everyone a stipend and then drug them into barely functional stupors for 10 hours a day.

Same result.

The missed point in "someone spending time on a meaningless job promotes social stability" is that you're forcing (via money and requiring same for sustenance) an individual to spend most of their life in a meaningless way in order to survive.

Is it a solution to resolving social unrest? Yes.

But let's not kid ourselves about what's actually being done.

* To say nothing of the argument that by artificially depressing wages you make your economy dependent on manual labor, limiting re-investment in automation, thereby eventually dooming yourself when other countries have cheaper labor / cost-effective automation