It is not so much that people don’t want to work as that people who could afford to do so don’t want to pay a living wage to get the work done. In a recent article, Ezra Klein hits the nail on the head when he says that America is addicted to low-wage labor, jobs at wages that people will take only when they are desperate. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/13/opinion/stimulus-unemployment-republicans-poverty.html

With regard to the stimulus checks, we will soon learn since the checks are stopping state by state. So far the states that stopped them early haven’t seen a stampeded of job takers, but it is too soon to have complete data.