> A negative production value society member needs to be carefully balanced against a positive production value society member.
This is overly simplistic. Someone providing child or elder care is providing social value in a way which should not be measured against economic measures of production. Life is not an economic zero-sum game.
Not balancing this means society will go into decline one way or the other.
Offering basic levels to society members is health if the society can afford it and allows the society to grow quickie because risk is removed.