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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

As I said, the exact numbers could really stand a little more nuance because of how variable cost of living is, but at the end of the day, the point of the extra money was to ensure that everyone had their basic needs covered such that they weren't faced with a choice between working and starvation at a point when working wasn't an option. In some areas, the extra $600 was way more than was needed, but the fundamental idea was sound. Now, working is an option, but when they don't have to choose between working and starvation, a lot of people don't want to go back to jobs they hate for pay that still doesn't do enough to stave off starvation. That's not unemployment paying too much, that's a sign that their jobs need to do better to make them actually want to work there.

In pretty much every UBI/minimum income experiment that's been run, people do end up working despite having their needs covered. Inherently, most people do like working and doing things with their lives. They just don't want to do things they don't like doing if they don't actually have to, so when the threat of starvation is off the table, they take the opportunity to find careers they actually enjoy instead of letting themselves be stuck in a job they only do because they need to pay rent.

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