He's spent his entire working life in NYC. All of the contacts he's made throughout his career are there. Furthermore, there are not many places as good as NY

He's spent his entire working life in NYC. All of the contacts he's made throughout his career are there. Furthermore, there are not many places as good as NYC for work, in general, and certainly not in his field--and do you think he has much of a chance of starting over in a new career at his age? Or is getting another chance only limited to failed entrepreneurs who have blown through multiple million-dollar rounds of investment--should everyone else be flipping burgers in a small town somewhere as soon as they fail? And let's not forget that presumably the majority of his friends are there, and possibly family, considering that he's from NJ originally. He is, like many Americans, between a rock and a hard place--and in fact faring better than a lot of other people if you put them in his position. I'm rather impressed by this guy in fact. The reality is, we choose the society we want to have, and how we treat the people at the bottom shows us what we have chosen. Whenever talk of the absence of a real social safety net in the U.S. comes up the response is rhetoric about how people's expectations are off and how this kind of social safety net equates to socialism, which is a poison ideology that rots away the motivation to work hard. But when I look at the reality of contemporary America what I see are people at the ends of their ropes, working multiple jobs just to barely stay afloat, being taxed for being poor through fees and fines, and wealth accruing to people who already have the resources to do well. There has to be a better way.