Charles Hugh Smith calls it the โ€œcrapificationโ€ of everything. It was different when we were young as there were less people crammed into cities. Small business worked and there were more of them. Farming worked and more people lived out of town.

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The pace and scale of the change is quite mind blowing - mind you, as more people are flooding to the city I'm glad to be able to reside just outside it's reach. Crapification is a good word to describe what I'm seeing this morning ๐Ÿ˜† You're right about the small business thing too - there used to be a shop for everything around here, not any more though, they've all be converted to flats ๐Ÿ˜ž

And now everything is a big supermarket. I miss the corner store and the small shops with interesting things in them and the people that operated them.

We used to have a little supermarket owned and run by a Portuguese family and he knew all of us that came in. Now itโ€™s a chain store ๐Ÿ˜”