@ned I don’t even know how people can say this after 2020.
Here in the US people who couldn’t go to work because of Covid mitigations were getting 60% of their income (except states have a max, so maybe not if they’re HIGH earners) PLUS an extra $600 a week. So some of these people were making more money by not going to work, which I think is fantastic.
The part that blew my mind was that they were mad about it. Or maybe they were just screaming about it on social media so people wouldn’t get mad at them for forgetting extra money? It was the weirdest thing
Even when people were getting more money and unemployment than at work, and getting pandemic food stamps, and they had rental assistance available to them if they needed it, and they could have paid sick days if they were sick, some of these weirdos were still screaming about not being able to work.
So yeah, you can’t tell me that people would choose not to work.
This was my favorite tweet of 2020: