no, but it makes people happy.

Now, obviously that's a bit against the capitalist grain and all that, but think of it this way:

the Luddite rebellion, and mass unrest happened in the UK because people's livelihoods were taken away. Either through automation, or enclosure.

This left thousands upon thousands of people with little left to lose forced to crime in order to eat.

This is expensive for wider society, you need to spend money of security, courts, jail, insurance public damages.

Paying money to make them happy, so that they don't _have_ to turn to crime, or a radical dictator candidate is a price worth paying.