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Muscles posted...

No one is making more without that extra 600 from the federal government. That extra 600 a week was a bad idea and is keeping people lazy, and don't bringing up people wanting to avoid the virus, I'm sure therev are some, but most people want to get money just to stay home and be lazy, I know many of them, some I work with and others I don't. One of my best friends who I work with said he wasn't answering because his mom doesn't want him to go back to work, but she's been back a month herself and he brings people over despite her not wanting people over, I know damn well he just doesn't want to go back to work

There are a few very legit reasons why people wouldn't want to go back to work right now...which sucks. I keep saying now is the time to try and get a better job (then you had) because so many people are not going back to work yet (of course if your not high risk).

First as the above posted mentioned unemployment through July is paying often double (or more) than the jobs people had before. It's highlighting how little people are being paid. The average wage is somewhere around $10 an hour or so, which (if you can actually get 40 hours), is only around $1k a month. That is pretty freaking low, even in places with a fairly low cost of living.

When giving a choice between working somewhere, having to wear a mask all the time, risk getting sick etc, for $1000 a month, or staying home and getting around $4000 a month, are you really shocked many people are taking the stay at home option?

I also agree that the extra $600 a week was crazy, not because people shouldn't get that much mind you, but because it shows how unfair things are normally.

If someone signed up for unemployment right at the start, around Feb 1st or so, they will have collected about 24k or so by the time the pua ends August 1st.

That doesn't seem much to me, even now when I'm retired and living on only $1000 a month or so, but to many people who have never had more than $1000 saved in their lives, it's huge. The numbers have shown people are not spending that money either, they are hoarding it. Who can blame them, it's crazy out there and nobody knows what the future holds.

They are in discussions for another relief check, and who knows what is going to happen with unemployment at this point with all the numbers surging so much.

Again the problem is how are you gonna convince people to go do the 40 something percent of jobs that pay almost nothing but are still very neccesary, if they have enough saved to pay their bills for the next year or so (already and that isn't counting any new relief packages/extended pua etc).

Perhaps they won't and companies will need to actually pay people a decent amount to do those freaking jobs finally, not because min wage has increased, but because they just can't find anyone who is willing to work for min wage anymore.

I don't think that is a bad thing, but, I'm not sure if the transition is going to go smoothly.

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