 What is the main reason behind the Welfare State operating as it does?
Law prevented him from ever being called up for contributing to the country's labor needs again. In the early days of the Ultrawelfare State, they had made a mistake in adapting to the automation of the second industrial revolution. They had attempted to give everyone work by reducing the number of working hours in the day, and the number of working days in the week. The only fair thing was to let the technologically unemployed remain unemployed, with their Inalienable Basic stock as the equivalent of unemployment insurance, while the few workers still needed put in a reasonable number of hours a day, a reasonable number of weeks a year and a reasonable number of years in a life time.
 Automation with computers has made the need to work largely obsolete.
 Automation with computers has made the need to work largely obsolete.  The current populace is not skilled enough to work, and thus most people are a part of the Welfare State  The government does not want new workers, and is content supplying people with the funds they need to get through life.  Overtime, the public has lost its drive to work. Thus, no one enforces a workforce.