[anovikov]

This model also means using of lots and lots of labor because sales volume of those shops is very small and it keeps entire family occupied. It means those people are unavailable for other productive activities.

The world is entering labor shortage zone that will last for as long as we don't figure how to fix reproduction without abandoning human rights (which isn't an option anyway because there are many countries and people can vote with their feet).

Economic models that are as efficient as possible and above all, labor efficient, are thus highly preferrable. It's very likely we will see totally unmanned chain convenience stores soon.

[justworkout]

Countries have a labor shortage while simultaneously having overemployment with people doing pointless jobs, or people desperately searching for jobs and hundreds of people applying to the same positions. People who "graduate" from working at a grocery store and putting money in their own pockets often end up sitting at a computer doing nothing but scrolling through the internet and putting money in their employer's pockets.

Corner grocery stores aren't really a problem.

[beaeglebeach]

The real question is not whether they are a problem but why such wildly inefficient systems exist, and the answer is likely a factor in the desperation.

[throw_pm23]

Funny how it is claimed simultaneously that we enter labor shortage zone and there not being any meaningful jobs for people to do.

[Der_Einzige]

You’re being downvoted because you’re right and HNs user base hates to hear the truth.

[AlexandrB]

> The world is entering labor shortage zone

Labor for what? Labelling training data?