Your point is valid.
Maybe the welfare system should have a payback when you make it clause set up.
It's a thing, okay? To be young, broke and hopeful in NYC is something special. No joke. I still keep in touch with some of the people I knew from that time in my life. One guy who was working minimum wage at a copy shop is now making mid six figures and misses the old days of counting change out at a Blarney Stone for a beer...