[forz877]

Pandemic restrictions are pretty much nonexistent in large swaths of the US that have similar problems.

There is certainly a worker deficit. Our society has moved up the stack and isn't bringing in enough cheap immigrant labor anymore to work the jobs even poor americans won't accept anymore.

[Supermancho]

Example, in North Dakota where you can get a union Costco job for 18$+/hr (or chick fila for 17/hr) there are plenty of places (including hospitals) offering 15$/hr and they can't find people to fill the slots. Your dog grooming is paying 11$/hr? That's just another business going bust.

Businesses who were on a shoestring fail and yuppies continue to move in. The regional+national inflation has simply left large chunks of business in the dust without very cheap (immigrant) labor. This causes the makeshift infrastructure to weaken and the communities start to come apart.

[lotsofpulp]

I was under the impression that Costco only had union employees in California and a couple east coast states. The vast, vast majority of Costco employees are not in a union.

[pyronik19]

Decades of wreckless government money printing for helicopter cash is catching up.

[fosk]

Wouldn’t this incentivize automation?