Are there just too many of us?

Starting to lean toward this thought.

Everywhere I go, things are understaffed. Fast food restaurants have been that way for years now, but I'm talking more about grocery stores, health clinics, retail stores, gas stations.

People standing in lines, just generally waiting. And some of the workers are not great, but for the most part they are working fine. They aren't rushing like crazy, but they are working.

Sometimes I feel like people get the idea that things were better in the nifty fifties because the population was significantly smaller. You could talk to someone at a store and they could provide customer service without feeling they were neglecting their job.

Maybe it's depression, but everywhere I go I feel like everything is really unextraordinary, particularly when you consider how much things cost.

Dear Nextdoor.