I think rents rose so fast those low paying service jobs are now unable to provide even a strained living. The retail industry isn’t able to subsidise the landlord’s largess
Appropriate if the final nail in the u.s. coffin is that we finally ran out of :free-real-estate:
I think it’s even more morbid than you’re suggesting I bet a lot of these essential workers probably died or got long covid complications and just plain cant work anymore.