“If today is considered a retail apocalypse,” then what’s coming next could truly be scary.” Eight million American retail workers could see their careers evaporate, not due to technological disruption but a predatory financial scheme. The masters of the universe who devised it, meanwhile, will likely walk away enriched, and policymakers must reckon with how they enabled the carnage.
https://newrepublic.com/article/145813/cause-consequences-retail-apocalypse