People would take time over a job if Maslows hierachy of needs are taken care of by some grant like Universal Basic Income.

I would conjecture people don't always work for rational reasons -> Billionaires going to the office must piss off everyone like dude, you've won the game, go buy an island or something. So work is a useful habit. Useful in that it's a source of revenue for the government. Which is good and I agree with. But that makes unemployment a wholly irrational thing. Can our economic models even include unemployment as a variable? Surely government must hear those unemployment stats like a cat scratching a board.

Should people have to lie, cheat, beg so that they can become tax paying citizens?