(07-29-2020 02:14 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Not a restaurant 'analogy' lad. Actual real life instances where the 'increased' unemployment has cut into the job pool. Literal positions that are not being filled.

Cant blame the fishing captains -- If I made 2% less than I do now and I could sit around and go fishing, that is absolutely what I would do.

Even more so if I made 10% more via unemployment.

Cold hard facts from one diner operator --- a kitchen position paying at the outset of Wuhan shutdown 1k a week. That person now makes a normal 380/week *plus* the Pelosi added benefit of another 600 a week. The kitchen position is not filled and he cannot fill it. And he cannot increase the pay at that position due to the drop in business due to the Texas shutdown provisions.

For another position, the combined unemployment and the Pelosi 600 special makes the work for pay fall short by about 100 bucks.

His solution -- he doesnt do dinner anymore (i.e. no service from 5pm on). He is contemplating simply doing breakfast and shutting down at 12:45.

This has zero to do with your long winded last sentence, I hope you might note.

Sorry, should have said anecdote. Brain may have been fried from my field work today.

That still doesn't answer my question - I understand the point you're trying to make, but you didn't address whether or not you think there hasn't been a net loss of jobs due to the coronavirus, regardless of those who have decided to forgo returning to work because they find the wages are too low to compete with increased unemployment.