The government is paying people more to stay at home than to work, with money it doesn’t have. What could possibly go wrong with that? The gravy train is ending in a lot of states, but a number of blue states haven’t shut off the spigot yet.
A restaurateur acquaintance who is having difficulty restaffing told me that several of his servers have offered to return to work, provided they were paid off the books so that they could continue to collect their unemployment benefits and governmental subsidies. As my sainted grandmother used to say, "America Bella!"