From an accounting perspective, it doesn't make sense to work in the private sector when government handouts give you more, but from a big picture perspective it does. The market makes people into better persons, it builds character while the government is basically like a criminal organisation. The more you depend on them, the more it destroys your character and person. Even the process of filling out the government forms is degrading and humiliating. Even most government jobs are shit, with no market accountability. They train behavior in people that causes them to be more likely to be personal failures.