# The Nahployment 'Crisis'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nahployment-crisis/941117>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 30, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nahployment-crisis/941117 "2021-04-30T19:07:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nahployment-crisis/941117/74 "2021-05-02T12:39:09Z")

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> [@UltraVires](#):
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> How is this the free market at work when the government pays people to sit at home?

Please read the OP and do better than come in here with the same tired conservative talking points which, as explained in the OP, has nothing to do with what is happening.

UV, they’re not coming back to these jobs because of UE since, as noted, people are refusing to come back for minimum wage W-2 work _after_ their UE runs out. UE has nothing to do with this phenomenon, other than giving people time to see what their options were. And they found better ways to earn that measly $300/week than by working @ Walmart, so they are making the rational economic decision to do a Johnny Paycheck and say ‘take this job and shove it.’

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