Originally Posted by
Descendto450
lol, whatever it takes to get the orange man out of office. Shut it all down until Nov 8th.
The other angle is that anyone laid off from any job netting less than ~$3000-4000/mo is now receiving $0-400/week state unemployment and $600/week federal assistance—for the next 6 months.
The $600/mo federal is not income based. I have seen social media posts reminding people “if you have 1 cent in qualifying earnings you get $600/week too!”
Just throwing it out there that with that kind of money on the table (to do nothing) sets up a sort of moral hazard re: reopening the economy.
Plenty of baristas out there are getting $1k a week to watch Netflix and play with their phones. It might seem short-sighted to many of us, but imho the average hipster isn’t exactly biased towards all the Starbuckses reopening right now if only for that reason.