Recently I watched a YouTube video about unemployment, and the person said something that resonated with people very well: "no one tells you how quiet unemployment feels. I have time but it doesn't feel like freedom."
I felt the same and after months of applications I got my first job at an IT firm a few months ago.
I feel more unfulfilled than I did when I was unemployed. It feels like everyone is paid just to show up, and occasionally do the work for an owner that doesn't care about the people. It's an old and rotting system based on fear, only to make ends meet.
If your company owners and government officials really cared about our wellbeing, Universal Basic Income would have been a thing by now.