I'm only talking to what they did to protect the jobs and empoyees.
Here in Spain you have a unenployment aid/benefit you can make use of only when getting fired or the contract expires. If you quit, you're out.
It's not free nor unlimited. Every worked year you sum 4 months. Max is 2 years.
First 6 months you get 75% of yur last 6-month average income. Then 60%.
Definitely you won't get rich at all by cheating the goverment, unless you had a really high position (Directive, Surgeon, etc, and those rarely get unenployed).
Companies started to suffer the economic consequences of the pandemic, some didn't have enough work to keep going.
So whatthe goverment did was a way to protect the both companies and workers.
Companies with insufficent activity could send workers to their homes paying nothing, and relieving their economic loads.
Workers got the 75% from the goverment taken from their unenployment bag.
This atctually didn't last long, just few months, neither it was massive, most people I know was sent to home just some weeks during the whole year.
When pandemic started to come to an end, all companies got their workers back and economy resumed strongly.
All those idiots claming it was ruining the country, every single of them ran to the get the economic assistance, most didn't need it, but their way of thinking is..well... egocentrism is their second name.
Me on top of everyone else! Hey, those have children and the both got fired - Fu** them! My new V8 gas won't pay itself!
The real sh** came out with the russian conflict.
Suddenly everything started to raise, companies expeculated with first-need products, oil, natural gas...
What? So there's no lack of supplies yet, but -just in case- we'll rise prices, because we think it might short soon.
That shouldn't be allowed!
There was a recent documental showing how the big companies were doing very dark busines practices.
There's a book about it: "The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources".
Engligh,
Spanish.
For example, Russian oil was sold to non-russian oil companies, but everything was done in international waters to elude any law.
So it was the same oil, but it wasn't russian anymore
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Same for raw materials. Is this iron coming from Russian? I'll buy it. Now I'll sell it at twice the price.
One of those families controlling the raw materials have 14 members with more than $1BN each!