I think it is really difficult to fix the issue where having a job is worse than not having one. If you make sure the benefits are below what the market more o

I think it is really difficult to fix the issue where having a job is worse than not having one. If you make sure the benefits are below what the market more or less defines as minimum wage, then people on benefits are going to have a dreadful time. If you try to smooth the benefits loss, then you mostly end up subsidising employers. (I can reduce wages because the state will pick up the difference.) If you increase the minimum wage, then you increase the numbers of people who "can contribute something" but not enough to make sense economically speaking.