The aff would replace the social safety net---rhetoric of laziness is impossible to overcome---turns case
Lynn D. Lu 21 (Associate Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law and Co-Director of the Economic Justice Project), “From Stigma to Dignity? Transforming Workfare with Universal Basic Income and a Federal Job Guarantee,” 2021, CUNY School of Law, https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1343&context=cl_pubs
Yet the risk remains that a UBI and JG scheme would eventually come to replace, rather than augment, a minimum social safety net. Tcherneva notes that “while paid work in the modern world is life-defining and indispensable, it has, for many, become elusive, onerous, and punitive.”48 The attempt to recapture the language of work, while intended to celebrate the dignity of work, may emphasize the stigma of benefits receipt as “laziness.” Indeed, these programs might only replicate the worst problems of punitive workfare on an even wider scale, subjecting more individuals to sanction, hardship, and stigma for failing to fulfill the job responsibilities of a government program that offers only degrading, make-work jobs.