Wait a minute. Wait a god damned minute. Are you saying we shouldn't have helped these folks who would have otherwise been on breadlines , as many were, when their jobs suddenly disappeared from under them. Because despite there being no jobs, your conviction that they must be a lazy bunch of bums should be enough to disqualify them from getting our help when their jobs suddenly disappeared. Yikes. To be a perverse incentive wouldn't there have to be jobs available!!!
I'm not saying that at all. I'm all for the safety net. I'm a huge proponent of it. Original unemployment was enough to help someone on hard times but not enough to encourage them to not look for a job. During the peak of covid, it probably made sense to provide a bit more than normal - like 100% of your wage or something. I'm saying that enhanced unemployment is causing a disruption in the labor market. People are literally getting paid more to not work. Perhaps they should be ratcheting the unemployment down as jobs open up. Or make it harder to get the enhanced unemployment as the economy opens up. Back to the original point: the proposal you said would take time to play out, already is playing out.
Looked into it deeper...Dest, what is a chiming clock? A wristwatch that actually chimes? OMG I would love to hear what that sounds like!
That's a more reasonable position. But I can also see the good sense and benefits to come from bumping the the lowest wage folks up to a living wage and from holding the line on higher paid laid-off workers who will nevertheless struggle to squeak by on what seems to others to be overly generous, government payments. I hope the intention was not to keep everyone treading water, but rather to leave those previously living on credit at least not worse off then they were before they lost their jobs. I am not an enthusiastic advocate of wages below what it takes to just get by, leaving one with only one alternative, namely to rely on subsidies of some kind.
Chiming clock refers to the minute repeater complication. It means that the hour is chimed. The minute repeater can be set to minute granularity.
No House making minute repeaters refer to it as a chiming clock. The term is an anachronism as all minute repeaters are, by definition, chiming clocks.
The significance of setting the MR to 12:14 is that the MR-function chimes the number of quarter-hours and then the minutes to the next (1/4 hour). It's not practical to chime hour -> minutes. IOW, even if possible (huge double mainsprings); nobody would want to hear 59-minute chimes. So hour chime -> quarter hour -> minutes to next quarter hour. 1:59 would be one hour chime -> three quarter hour chimes -> fourteen minute chimes. A quarter repeater chimes the hour -> quarter hour (no minutes).