Its no good saying "life isn't fair" Government is there to make sure it becomes fair!
Is it ? Has anyone told them ?
"Retailers in the rest of Europe, including Germany and France, have so far been spared large-scale closures, partly due to a much lower market share to date for online retailers, as well as less over-indebted domestic consumers"
"so far" ....
Empty high streets benefit no-one, they can become dens of crime and cost us more in the longer run, as we lose business rates and tax revenues
I can't help but wonder if this is what happened when trains supplanted canals, and cars supplanted horses ? Were there people watching stables, mews, farriers, saddlers, blacksmiths, trainers, stable boy, grooms, coachmen all slowly losing their livelihoods saying "it'll get better" ? Because that's how I see things now.
Look how "work" has changed in my lifetime .... when I started my first "proper" job in 1985, the company still had a typing pool.
Of course, out of the decline of the horse-led era, blacksmiths become motor mechanics, coachbuilders became car manufactures, etc etc.
Plus ca change ?
All I know is, any misty-eyed attempt to ensure the equine era somehow remained untouched by progress and preserved in aspic were doomed to fail.
(I also think the era of personal motor transport will prove to be ephemeral, but that's a different subject).
By the way it's not that I'm saying you're necessarily wrong. But we're never going back to how things were.