We are paying tens of millions of citizens to stay home and guard their couches. If we told them their freebies run out in six months, the economy would get stimulated.
Canada had an interesting issue with middle class families having engaged an "au Pair" to mind kids. Young women coming from Europe as from the Philippines and elsewhere, working for a small cash wage plus room and board.
The enlightened Canadian government decided these "off books" were to be governed by the federal government, and so had to be declared, employment taxes and benefits paid into a system for them, and darn near overnight a hefty population of 'au Pairs" were left go by middle class families who couldn't afford the additional costs.
In a wholly different anecdote from this week, a new gardening team was working down the street, a young man and two helpers. Local, American and hard at work. For what some might call "slave wages," and others would term entry level positions and low end individual entrepreneurship. I engaged them for one of our properties. White Americans... So not "slave wages."