Businesses cannot compete with free money.
Free money is one of communism’s biggest weapons against free enterprise.
The other weapon is immorality which breeds lack of responsibility.
The objective is chaos and collapse of the society so that martial law can be justified and accepted by the people.
The “free money” stuff ended more than a year ago.
This is a demographic cliff. It was coming, but lots of people ignored it. COVID may have accelerated it a bit, but it’s been coming for years.
Labor participation is decent. Unemployment is virtually non existent (for now) and the economy is still moving. In six months that will likely change. But for now…we simply don’t have the working bodies.