Agreed. All that is harder to bear than hunger. To give up a job, willing to go on the dole instead, is selfish. Some folks have morals that won't permit taking a handout when you are able-bodied and the job is there.

As a programmer/architect and sometimes-startup-founder, I have always been in a position to be unemployed for a year or two at a time without any money problems. Not everyone has that buffer.