Why not simply allocate social resources such that people who are not needed for work simply don't have to work?
There's been quite some hand wringing over this issue in the UK in recent years with people on long term sickness welfare or other long term welfare programs.
The populist view is that these people "should" be working and don't "deserve" to be subsidized full time because they haven't "contributed" to the system. But if they are genuinely of as little use to the workforce as it seems, does such a stigma to not working really make any sense?