I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago.
Drove by an In and Out Burger. They had a Help Wanted Sign in the Window, starting Pay $16 an Hour.
I noticed a whole bunch of Help Wanted Signs everywhere we went, even in Sausalito.
If the cost of living in San Fran is anything like that in the NYC metro area, then $16/hour isn’t much at all. One problem with the “safety net” is that it lets idle people live in very expensive areas - in which they probably couldn’t live if they had a job.