Food is cheap, it doesn't take a lot of work to not starve to death. Many of them can survive on odd jobs and hustles that aren't counted as employment. And man

Food is cheap, it doesn't take a lot of work to not starve to death. Many of them can survive on odd jobs and hustles that aren't counted as employment. And many of them left their expensive city apartments and moved into friends of family's places where the entire mortgage payment is less than single room apartment rent. They severely reduced their expenses which means their pocket change turned into a sizable fund to live on. And now if they do want to move back, rent prices have in many places doubled, so now they are demanding even higher wages to make up for it.