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If the people working at a store can’t afford any apartment within a forty minute commute the store will fail.
by DylanDmitri 3y ago
If the people working at a store can’t afford any apartment within a forty minute commute the store will fail.
- throwawaysleep 3y agoYet San Francisco continues to have min wage workers.
- rightbyte 3y agoNever ending stream of suckers that has not realized that it doesn't work out yet. Like Uber drivers that are selling their car at a loss one mile at a time. Some might be living in rent controlled flats though.
- jankyxenon 3y agoIt's been true for a long time that people working at that store couldn't afford to live nearby (in general). What changed in the last few years though?
- intended 3y agoCovid
- DylanDmitri 3y agoStores with no nearby workers won’t spontaneously fail. But the situation is symptomatic of a precarious labor/housing equilibrium. In this precarious system, stores are likely to be toppled by external forces (Covid), and have farther to fall afterwards. Other cities, with more robust labor/housing equilibriums, are bouncing back from the pandemic just fine.