Why the 2020 unemployment insurance checks were an additional $600 a week, rather than say, “We're going to replace 80% of your income”?
> how their COBOL systems made updating them very technically complex…It was just too technically complicated in the time available to program 80% or replacement rates. And so they just slapped on adding $600 a week to everyone's check because that was technically easier.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 15.4 ms ] thread> how their COBOL systems made updating them very technically complex…It was just too technically complicated in the time available to program 80% or replacement rates. And so they just slapped on adding $600 a week to everyone's check because that was technically easier.