I often wonder if there's a sort of bad feedback loop that prevents this from happening. It's increasingly becoming too expensive to employ people who aren't o

I often wonder if there's a sort of bad feedback loop that prevents this from happening. It's increasingly becoming too expensive to employ people who aren't on top of their game. Employing to train is very difficult, because people just can't live on lower wages - in some cases it's explicitly illegal. In the UK this is primarily due to rent, in the US it seems to be a combination of rent and healthcare. Rent is obviously addressable with political will. I don't know enough about the US healthcare situation. People push for increases in the minimum wage, when really it seems as if the issue is that housing costs are skyrocketing and that effect filters through into everything else (a "high cost of living" area is usually just a high rent area).