Far more than that -- I'm talking about welfare one can quite comfortably live on. Let's make work a lifestyle choice. If technology allows for that to happen, perhaps even opponents of the welfare state, who are mostly found in the US, will come around. I mean, maybe even they will realize that it makes sense even for the richest person to be only so many times richer than the common folk.

We already basically do this by paying people to provide services (either directly through government, or indirectly) which are essentially unnecessary for production. Or by over-staffing government agencies above what is needed to actually do the work.

This is super common in the middle east. You can make $200-400k/yr doing a make-work bureaucratic job, provided you're a local.

I think my statement wasn't as nuanced as it could have been; I am in total support of what you are suggesting. The problem is funding it, usually by dipping further into "capital" i.e. a wealth tax which the wealthy are probably reticent to pay; even though it would probably be in their best interest.