Odds are that not every job change or transition will be planned for, and everyone should expect to have hard times at some point or other. Its hard for me to find anyone to blame that on, or to say that "the system" needs to be changed so it doesn't happen anymore. Its normal, and a great deal of prosperity could set in, a much bigger safety net set up, and it would still be normal.
I have had about eight jobs myself in my 35 years in the workforce, and almost all of the transitions were planned (often involving moving to some new corner of the country or other). Some were nevertheless accompanied by poverty, as I haven't always put money ahead of other things, and new jobs haven't always popped up exactly when I wished them to. The only real uncomfortable episode was during the last recession, when I had a family to support and I was fired during a "downsizing". I could have found work elsewhere, but the property market also tanked and I owed more on my house than it was worth....anyway, to make a long story short, I did find lesser work and spent three years scraping by. It took some time and planning and determination, and some study toward a much better position, but everything is pretty well turned around now, and I am in "working hard and putting away for retirement" mode now.
Jobs come and go, and everything changes; people do the best they can to keep up at whatever point they are in life, and about all anyone could wish to do about it is have a generally better economy to maintain generally better opportunities.
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