One has to think on a macro scale about generous welfare systems. One, these systems tend to pay for themselves in terms of economic stimulus, because money given to the bottom tends to actually be spent, as opposed to more money given to the rich, or even the middle class (the former squirreling it away and the latter using it to pay down debt). Secondly, strong social safety nets help keep the job market from being flooded with needy laborers, allowing wage prices to stay decent and to prevent employers from exploiting desperation, because there is now a point at which you have no economic incentive to work.
Opposition to it seems to merely be emotion-based (I work, why should they not have to) rather than really thinking it through. Ideally we'd all be working, but stagnant markets are the rule of the day for now.
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