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Also a huge third thing:

* Large portions of the middle class and professional class got temporary, permanent, or indefinite semi-permanent Work From Home privileges, leading lots of people who'd been renting small apartments in the cities to buzz off for a larger house out in the burbs. This leads to a lot of consumption of household goods.



Here in the UK at least, those middle and professional classes also saved lots of money due to reduced expenses -- no holidays, no socialising, no commuting etc.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/bank-overground/2020/how-has...

I'm sure many high-earners finally got the "FU money" savings required to risk resigning without having new job lined up.




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