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Any demographers in here? I wonder if this has anything to do with the baby boomer generation all hitting retirement around now, and the incoming cohort being

• adbachman 3y ago
  Could be that, could be restaurants and construction companies looking for a population that will settle for minimum wage.
• CuriouslyC 3y ago
  A lot of is pandemic moms staying home to deal with kids and older folks that don't want to work public jobs anymore.
  • r00fus 3y ago
    A non-trivial amount of folks have died from the pandemic or have some degree of long covid as well. Meanwhile, large conglomerates use the supply chain scares to arbitrarily raise prices causing real inflation. At some point, the BS required to do an entry-level / retail job isn't worth it (min wage doesn't pay enough these days), or you're simply incapable of doing what you could before.
• hindsightbias 3y ago
  Anecdataly, every small town diner I've been to since 2021 has very long waits for food and service and the kids working are family. And they all have that 1000 mile stare towards the cities. Even true for Iowa resort lakes in the summer. Before, HS/college kids fought for $10/hr jobs fueling/loading beer into boats. Now the boats are queued up waiting for the 80 year old proprietor to cart their beer down.