Of course they would (much more free time to do actually productive tasks!) unless you’re assuming they will be losing the “dignity of work” or something like that.
My question is, why do people only worry about poor people not having the dignity of work? Shouldn’t we be more worried about all the children of the rich who will never need to earn a living? Shouldn’t we make them all do labor, for the good of their own souls?
If they were capable of doing actually productive tasks, they would get a job somewhere other than the TSA. It’s more a question of structure and routine than “dignity of work”, and the type of person who can have structure and routine in their life without a job has enough agency that they wouldn’t be working for the TSA either.
> Shouldn’t we be more worried about all the children of the rich who will never need to earn a living?
We should be worried about those people because they tend to die from drug abuse much more frequently than the general population. The same is true for washed up celebrities and lottery winners. In fact, this is something that rich people tend to worry about a lot in regard to their own children.
> If they were capable of doing actually productive tasks, they would get a job somewhere other than the TSA
This statement seems bonkers to me. People work at the TSA because they need money. Anybody who can hold down a job at the TSA would be entirely capable of doing many productive tasks that may not be remunerative, such as child care, elder care, care for the disabled, any number of home/landscape maintenance tasks, home construction, etc. Not to mention all of the activities that people do to add value to their lives and those around them: contributing the community, making art/music, etc.
> Anybody who can hold down a job at the TSA would be entirely capable of doing many productive tasks that may not be remunerative, such as child care, elder care, care for the disabled, any number of home/landscape maintenance tasks, home construction, etc.
Everyone pretty much assumed the children of the rich will be spoiled and entitled drags on society. But unless you’re proposing to prevent parents from spending their own money on their children, rich children are irrelevant.
I don’t think the TSA agents would be better off in that scenario.