You're right. Why should I be lunch box ready to return to the place that fired me. That people take the time offered by the unemployment payments to reassess their possibilities is good for them -- actually for business too, and the country. Some will use the time for planning new businesses and others to play the guitar -- it really doesn't matter. Because of the pandemic the disparity of income. wealth and (because of these) opportunity has become even greater than before. There we have to find some solutions pretty quickly. UBI makes sense.