Generally, going to work is much healthier than not, due to giving people a sense of purpose and the feeling they are benefitting the public or their community in some way. I speak in generalities because there are some jobs or fields where a person might feel they are actually doing harm to their customers such as swindling them out of their money. But generally jobs validate to a person that they are valued, both as a an asset to their company and providing a desired service to their community
The setup for disability in particular is terrible. It encourages people to up-play and exaggerate the things that limit them, which subconsciously can disempower the feeling of control they have in their own lives. And it doesn’t pay shit. I don’t think just paying more money is the solution, but it doesn’t pay enough to allow people to have a life. I talk to a ton of people on disability in my job and a lot of them have no money for hobbies or interests, they don’t even have enough to keep a vehicle maintained and so are trapped inside their shitty apartment 24/7.
I also think that being paid money for nothing, such as being born filthy rich or taking advantage of some social support program that a person deep down REALLY doesn’t need (only a small percent of people do this but it does happen), can distort someone’s personality in a negative way
I always recommend to people in my personal life that are weighing out working vs getting on disability to try to work unless it’s literally going to kill them
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