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> Nobody working those jobs can afford to live in those towns anymore, so you get a bunch of millionaires going off to vacation in their winter dachas, only to
by fshbbdssbbgdd 5y ago
> Nobody working those jobs can afford to live in those towns anymore, so you get a bunch of millionaires going off to vacation in their winter dachas, only to discover that there's nobody there to cater to them.
This seems like a price stickiness problem. If there’s demand from tourists buy food, but not enough staff, the restaurants can raise their prices and raise the wages they offer. At some point, either demand to go to restaurants goes down because people don’t want to pay (so the staff aren’t needed), or wages increase enough that the staff can afford to live. The end state isn’t peachy for everyone (the ski area becomes a place that only the most wealthy can afford to visit) but at least the problem of understaffing is solved.
- vineyardmike 5y agoI feel like this problem grew as the ability for the middle class to enjoy leisurely actives grew. There was a time when the MC grew, and could spend money and things were great. It was unsustainable, but it took a while for the prices to catch up - eg. ski towns had housing before ski'ing was generally popular, and slowly it was bought faster than replenished and now that skiing is popular, the demand far outstrips supply. Over time they priced out service work, and now we'll need to swing back to a state where the middle class no longer can afford those luxuries, and the service workers have to be more middle class because they're paid so well to cover the costs.