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Teaser - Pandemic Anonymous (05/10/21)

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4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear the full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/51100750 (Teaser) We discuss the weekend's job market handwringing over pandemic unemployment insurance and weigh in on the increasingly prevalent framing of the "pandemic addict" in light of last week's "The Liberals Who Can't Quit Lockdown" piece. But first, we get into some new information on the TRIPS waiver as companies work to get their stories straight. Runtime 1:13:43, 10 May 2021 🧬

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0:00.0

this whole argument that's happening is is so amusing to me because on the one hand,

0:06.5

like the reason that the chamber is able to say that there's that there's a problem here

0:11.6

and then attribute it to those workers who are just living high on the hog of unemployment

0:18.5

insurance, which we're going to get into a second is just utter

0:21.9

utter bullshit.

0:23.7

That's utter bullshit because if you can be rehired by the employer who laid you off,

0:30.6

they say come back and you don't come back.

0:34.4

Like in most places, that means you no longer,

0:38.0

if you refuse to,

0:39.6

you no longer qualify

0:40.6

for those benefits.

0:42.2

You then have

0:43.2

effectively,

0:44.1

in the logic of the system,

0:44.9

quit your job.

0:46.0

So then you don't qualify

0:46.8

for those benefits anymore.

0:47.7

So this idea that people

0:48.7

are like using the benefits

0:51.5

to like avoid

0:52.7

going back to work

0:54.0

for the same employer.

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