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Probably because the wages are very low and the work loads way too high. Some link: "How the current worker shortage is really a wage shortage" https://www.nynmedia.com/content/opinion-how-current-worker-...

"It’s not a labor shortage — it’s a wage and workers rights shortage" https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/570441-its-not-a-labor-s...

"Our employment system has failed low-wage workers. How can we rebuild?" https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/04/28/our-emplo...

>>kome+(OP)
Is this new?

>>onlyre+i1
my spitballed guess- people who were working retail type jobs werent able to during the pandemic and then realized, hey, this is optional. I survived without working a shitty job for poverty wage. Why go back?

>>onlyre+i1
I don't think it's new, but a lot of people got a taste of what life is like when they aren't breaking their back for minimum wage thanks to the pandemic