I get that a lot of people have it worse than me as a highly privileged European. However I also "couldn't" pay 50% of my income for food because that amount of money is already going to my landlord... I wonder how that quota should look like in a fair society.
Specifically in Europe where everyone just loves Schengen. Unless you are an immigrant, then you should be kept out of it. or if it absolutely must be because not even they can argue you aren't an valid asylum seeker, restricted to at most one city.
I was under the impression that not only has this been the (German) law for decades, it used to be the only legal way of installing spyware and also exfiltrating data. But I can't be assed to look it up.
Unfortunately I feel this is still a slippery slope and one that also even AES haven't been very good at handling. Who decides what is "some way of contributing"? Is community work, emotional support, spreading knowledge about a hobby, some form of art a "valid" way to "earn one's living"? And how much of those you would have to do? What happens if you are hindered? Who decides?
I think without a post-scarcity (or severely degrowth) economy, these will stay hard to find a common ground on.
I love how the Gippities manage to translate about 10 different chinese games with "chess".