Originally Posted by blackmonsters

I lived in New York a while back and one thing I hated was all the "mom and pop" shops
going out of business because of high rent.
My area went from small self-owned muffin shops, breakfast place, pizza parlor etc...
to 10 dry cleaners on one block.
Amazon would run even more of those type places out of business and the business
owners would end up working in the Amazon warehouse for $15/hour, which is starvation in NY.