Your posts on this thread read like you are living in an Ayn Rand Dystopia. Nearly everyone around you works for the government? You are too dependent on government benefits to start a business? Your hope is that at some point the cost of living will be cheap enough that most people can live comfortably on welfare? There is such a dis-incentive to creating companies and jobs that even a motivated, well-spoken developer can't find a company that is hiring within any reasonable distance?
If it's really as you say, perhaps a "safety net" is the last thing this "stuck" generation needs.
I can only speak of my own experience based on where I live which is a post industrial town in England.
Basically as manufacturing declined the government stepped in and opened up many of their bureaucratic departments here. I think something like 60%+ of the jobs around here are for government of some form (either local or national).
We also have one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe. Combined with the fact that there is not really much of a tech scene here (most people have few qualifications at all) it is quite difficult to land development work.
My point is more that relocating or starting a business would require more resources than a typical recent college is likely to have access to.
If it's really as you say, perhaps a "safety net" is the last thing this "stuck" generation needs.