If records from the world in general and America in particular survive a few more generations, I rather suspect that one item of interest will generate a lot of buzz amongst those future historians:
Why were people paid more to stay home than to go to work?
Mind you, thanks to governmental stupidity, this is not some urban legend I got off of the internet; my daughter lived it.
When COVID-19 first really became a thing somewhere in the spring of 2020, my daughter, and all of her co-workers, were told to go home and that the store would be shuttered for two weeks. Two weeks, though, soon morphed into several months. And during that time my daughter began to receive “COVID unemployment relief funds” that actually dwarfed her regular salary. To put it mildly, she was making a killing just by sitting around at home.
But her mother and I have trained her well (both Dana and I are certified, unrepentant workaholics), and she has very good character. As soon as the store reopened and all of the workers were told “you can come back if you want to,” she went back immediately. She went from sitting on the couch to working like a fiend again, and she went from making two and three times her normal salary to making just her small, hourly wage.