Employment is a social relationship. It is entirely defined by where the check comes from and under what circumstances it is given. The whole point here is to freeze that social relationship in place so it’s still there when the pandemic is over. https://t.co/74h3q2c1vK

— Jeff Spross (@jeffspross) April 12, 2020

Wow, people are just powerful stupid. Of course you can keep people employed this way. That’s all employment is — a tacit agreement, invisible but real. Preserving that arrangement is exactly what that check does.

I am always surprised by how volubly clueless so many people are. Being clueless is ok, I guess, but do you have to advertise it so loudly and publicly?