First: Acting in your own fiscal self-interest shouldn't be considered rational? By making this choice, the woman has both more income and more free time to continue a job search.<p>Second: Using a system for its intended purpose (income while you remain unemployed) is gaming said system? How?<p>Edit: this was a reply to what you had before ("i don't know that playing/gaming the system and breaking the rules should be considered rational."), not the current rewrite.<p>Edit to (snarkily, I admit) reply to your current comment: So you're arguing that taking a risk is somehow automatically irrational ... on a forum laregly focused on startups? ;)