The “incentive” is that it doesn’t last forever. Also, anecdotally, I was on unemployment (with the additional $600/wk) and as soon as I got offered a good job, I jumped on it. I think your idea of safety net vs incentive is skewed toward the conservative idea that people don’t want to work.
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People don’t want to work, and there’s good people like yourself that do. Unfortunately as is life there is always few bad apples. Congrats on the new job!
Small business can’t/won’t fail but it’ll take its hits. My only saving grace is that chaos and negativity usually produces positive and growth.
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It can last much longer depending on what legislators try to pass, but I do understand that it is currently slated to end.
Also, if you were making $7.25/hr you would probably hang onto that extra $600/wk as long as you could too. But the reality is that without health insurance, that $600/wk is gonna disappear fast if you get sick. 
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I earn, I budget and I pay for food.
How do business owners eat if they make no money?
So they have savings or the ability to borrow heavily.
That sounds more like a privileged person, than a poor person.
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I agree, but in turn that banked money may disappear faster when returning to work then, due to increased chance of catching the virus and getting sick. Yet another challenge to get people back to work is the fear of contracting the virus. It’s tough for sure
How privileged is the person that has to dig themselves out of major debt by borrowing heavily? I don’t see that as a privilege. I see it as an option and not an ideal one
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That’s my point.
If you were poor. You’d not have the option of borrowing to start a business. Or of working for free.
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It’s not necessarily a rich one either. But it may well be someone who started out with nothing, worked hard, saved some money over time and then took the dive and started a business. When a crisis like this one comes along, that person will lose his/her savings and investment (time and money) and go back to being poor, but now also much older and disheartened. Their employees never stood to profit like they did, but also have much, much less to lose.
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Sure. Hard times.
But I will stand by the person most in need.
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No. We all have the same to lose.
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Baked beans?
Bananas?
It is
What was the topic of this thread again? I’m lost.
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1st world problems.
I like what’s happening here. I might get shit on for this opinion I can’t formulate that well, but here goes. Any successful business is only successful because of their customers or clients. So I feel like people are entitled to some of the economic rewards of that success. Take Amazon, or most restaurants and grocery stores, most car companies, most real estate, countless business that don’t create a demand but just supply the demands created by our biology and culture. I think people should get returns on the money spent fulfilling those demands because their spending correlates directly with those companies earnings and that demand is there’s, not the companies.