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>Translation: my employees now must weigh the consequences of losing their jobs on the one hand vs. being arrested on the other.

"First, I’d like to be super clear that if you feel the slightest bit ill or even uncomfortable, please don’t feel obligated to come to work. I will personally be at work, but that is just me. Totally OK if you want to stay home for any reason."

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I'm guessing the workers at his factories need to come to work anyways. A paycheck is a paycheck.

Exactly. Which is why I don't understand all the people shitting on him for making that option available.

US unemployment is extremely generous.

I don't think this is true relative to international expectations? It's certainly more than it was pre-covid, but isn't it still limited time and low income for a high cost of living area?

I have been paid $3,232 to sit at home and do nothing the last month. Not including the stimulus check I haven't cashed yet. I would have made about $3,000 in the same time. That is completely insane to me. I do not see how that isn't extremely generous. I don't see how it's sustainable either.

That's hardly extremely generous for a city. Many people have rents between 1-2k which each up a third to two thirds of that. I realize it may be generous in your situation though. Re: affordability/sustainability, the alternative is possibly a recession as great or worse than the great depression, so the government is willing to borrow as much as it can to prop up consumer spending during the crisis. The idea being that if we continue spending we can avoid a demand crash and recover quickly once we can stop social distancing safely.

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