It does scale, because the assumption is that you’ve built your life around that previous level of income. Going from a few hundred K/year down to 60k/yr would probably be devastating for most.
The thing that people seem to forget is how higher AGI = higher taxes. People are just getting back some of what they’ve paid into the system already. Would you expect to get full coverage insurance on a new Ferrari, with premiums based on the value of that, then get compensated by the insurance for the value of the cheapest car on the market in the event that it was stolen?
I'm not arguing against the fact that unemployment scales, I am merely stating a fact.
OP's question was "why don't you pay more? That will make people want to leave unemployment". My response was "higher wages will not incentive people to leave unemployment because they would be receiving unemployment that scaled with those higher wages".
The thing that people seem to forget is how higher AGI = higher taxes. People are just getting back some of what they’ve paid into the system already. Would you expect to get full coverage insurance on a new Ferrari, with premiums based on the value of that, then get compensated by the insurance for the value of the cheapest car on the market in the event that it was stolen?
Edit: minor typo