Where did all the workers go (for low-rent and retail jobs)? In my area, warehouses that pay more are everywhere. They sop up the people that would otherwise be working these jobs that can't find people. There's not even enough people to fill the warehouse jobs at $20 an hour. The rest of those excuses is a problem with being a constant winner, you simply expect to be handed everything. Unfortunately, the wolves don't care and will happily eat you regardless. It's going to take a couple generations of being eaten by wolves to fix that.