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Except we are seeing a mass movement in food service today of workers closing up shops for better pay. We're seeing businesses say there's a "labor shortage" (there isn't, they are just unwilling to pay a wage labor wants to work for.)

Something is stewing out there, and I expect to see some road bumps when covid is over.

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> We're seeing businesses say there's a "labor shortage" (there isn't, they are just unwilling to pay a wage labor wants to work for.)

And that may well change rapidly as both the active job search condition for unemployment returns and the temporary federal boost is withdrawn by states or expires.

Sure, there may be a cluster of elite workers taking a pause resulting in some short-term disruption, but most will probably return to work in fairly short order, some after trying entrepreneurial endeavours or other alternatives to traditional work.

For one thing, a lot depends on what office life in cities looks like. If there are X% fewer office workers on a given day, that's going to put a lot of places out of business that depend on the lunchtime trade.

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