It's crazy, I realize the whole point to the unemployment insurance thing is to pretend to have something available to help people or something but maybe they could, you know, try to get their heads out of their asses. Your experience really showcases this because like you said you are being "punished" due to your employer following the law. My severance works out to 2.5 weeks pay + $500 (pay through the end of the year + $500 bonus) so yay I'm not totally broke but it's not like I've just gotten 6 months pay or something.

I'm pretty sure the entire point to our country is to try to "delete" as many normal people as possible so the rich fucks like Musk and Bezos can extract just a few more dollars.