Depends. Yah, its dumb to work when others get the same money and a whole life to spend it in BUT Free money doesn't last forever and you have maintained contacts with the people who want your goods and services. You've shown you can he trusted to pay your bills and work. This won't be (conpletely) forgotten when there's too many people and not enough jobs. Its kinda like the ant and the grasshopper. Gobs, the dole, the scratcher, pogey ... whatever you wanna call it, just allows summer to extend further than a season. Eventually, winter shows up and shows that lazy good fornothijg grasshopper whats what