I'm with the poster. I took a 70% pay cut when covid shut down the patch, but kept working in a different job. It's wrong, I don't like it, whatever, just get them off the damned teat.
Amen. And I think doing so would cut down a lot of this unrest going on in various cities; people are a lot less likely to stir up trouble all night if they know they have to get up the next morning to go to work.