If everyone ought to have something, it shouldn’t matter whether they’re employable at the moment. How their industry is doing, macroeconomic cycles, whether their skills are in demand, whether they produce enough value to justify hiring at the wage you consider fair, whether bosses and coworkers like them personally. None of that should be an input into whether or not you can see a doctor or eat a meal.

Cutting checks is a lot simpler than policing the terms of private transactions. Particularly when not all those transactions look like full time work for one corporate employer.