This line of reasoning, while 100% correct, is becoming irrelevant. Today’s chronically unemployed make more by not working than by taking minimum wage jobs. There is only one viable solution to this dilemma. Reduce benefits, or put work requirements on them, or put lifetime caps in place, or do all of the above.
Yup. Functional poverty is illegal. Nobody has standing to complain because a viable alternative is provided at taxpayer expense.