It’s up to us.

Locally, I've been seeing restaurants closing at a rate of 1-2 per week for the last several months.

Which I take as an early indicator that businesses are starting to feel the pinch.

Restaurants should be one of the first business types to feel the impacts of an economic slowdown since they are entirely discressionary spending for the vast majority of people.

Our local pro sports teams are also complaining about low attendance this season, which is happening for the same reason that people aren't eating out as much.

They're not doing nothing, they're actively making things worse by enacting policies which push towards the concentrating industry-power in a small number of players.

Consumers "aren't pushing back" because there's no fucking competition and nowhere to go to when the company you do business with starts acting shitty

Never vote for conservatives or neo liberal policies