it's not to punish you, although you're right in the fact that they would rather see you miserable than happy, it's to gradually roll out UBI in a way that will get people used to it without freaking out. there is nobody on this earth who is taking the easy way out of this though, except maybe a small minority who havent taken part in all the recent insanity
when u chip every human being in the world and finally set up ur global skynet and CBDC payment system so that u profit off every natural human interaction that takes place worldwide