The effect of long term unemployment and free stimulus money

[tRidiot]

Wasn't the stimulus unemployment $600/week. Which works out to about what per hour on a 40 hour week?

That wasn't a coincidence. They want(ed) people to get used to living on that amount, so that they would have more support and votes to push through their planned minimum wage increases.

It WILL bankrupt a number of businesses, thus forcing more onto unemployment, keeping new businesses from being viable, requiring more taxation to support those on the unemployment rolls, and eventually leading to a Basic Stipend type of situation - it's a self-fulfilling philosophy.

 

[OKNewshawk]

Good on you for hiring an "older person".

I'll be 60 next week and I'm finding it impossible to find something that pays a living wage that will consider hiring an old guy that can't be on his feet all day.

I'm in the same boat. I'm 68 and I can't stand for more than an hour (as anyone in the third group at the 17 Design tour can attest to.) I should be retired but I had to cash out what 401ks I had when I left my job at DirecTV to care for my wife. If I can find a work from home job it'd be ideal but a call center job where I can sit would be good. They don't even have to provide medical!

 

[Oklahomabassin]

What a shocker... when you pay people to stay home, you can't pay people to go to work.

You just have to raise wages until they will work. --credit one of our members

@dennishoddy heard the same thing.

 

[trekrok]

You just have to raise wages until they will work. --credit one of our members

@dennishoddy heard the same thing.

Yep, because as everyone with a small business knows, you just raise prices when you want, and everyone is happy to pay them.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Yep, because as everyone with a small business knows, you just raise prices when you want, and everyone is happy to pay them.

I understand.

 

[tRidiot]

That's the point, you can't just raise wages without consequences, and you can't just raise rates without consequences. In some fields, you can't raise rates at ALL, and you're already squeezed and contract-bound to the point you can barely make it already.

 

[joegrizzy]

if you have a business that actually relies on customers, you ain't gonna make it.

since my adult life, i've seen just about every major corporation "fail" and get bailed out. they are still around, and somehow they are still strong arming the little guy.

somehow.....

 

[TerryMiller]

Not the same but on a related note, I saw a sign at a MacDonalds today that read, "Paid daily."

Are there actually people that would demand a daily payday?

 

[dennishoddy]

Not the same but on a related note, I saw a sign at a MacDonalds today that read, "Paid daily."

Are there actually people that would demand a daily payday?

It’s worse than that.
South Florida McDonald’s are offering $50 to just come in for an interview.

South Florida McDonald's offers $50 just for people to come in for an interview

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/florida-mcdonalds-50-dollars-interview

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[RickN]

The sad thing is, there are millions of us that wish we could work. I keep looking for a work from home job I can do, but most places that offer them are scams, and the skills I have do not translate well into a work from home job.