If you want to stop people from working, if you want to humiliate them and keep them at home, then you have to do it like in the Hartz IV system.
People have been unemployed there for a long time.
In a country that is looking for workers on every corner, they have no work.
Then they pull themselves together, find a temporary job for a few hundred euros a month - but they have to give almost all of their earnings to the state.
And if they're unlucky, the state collects even more money than they got.
Germany's middle class is angry that the state is taking away half of their income.
But those who work their way out of unemployment in Germany have much higher deductions.