This is an interesting mess.

Here is a mess:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/finland-introduces-basic-income-unemployed-170103190406168.html

The ultimate contradiction is you give an income to the unemployed against a background of welfare to the poor and the unemployed.

There is another contradiction. Benefits for the unemployed are such that they do not wish to return to work in case with taxes and so forth the end up earning less than what the get for doing nothing.