[pdfcollect]

Why not do this for the entire world? :-)

[vixen99]

Possibly because some lousy spoilers will object to working like a dog and financing the bloke down the street who doesn't.

[noonespecial]

This is somewhat de-fanged by the idea that said lousy spoiler also gets the $3000. Its better than the current system where only those blokes who won't/can't (damn them/pity them) get the handout. People still work like dogs under the current system so... meh?

[llamataboot]

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S...

[dllthomas]

I think that would be fantastic, if you could figure out how to make it work. Sovereignty is a thorny issue. It could possibly happen for a cooperating collection of nations, though determining amounts would be messy.

[dragonwriter]

Because we don't have the social infrastructure -- starting with an effective world government -- to do it.