Sure, it’ll lose out to London, Paris, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, …
But it won’t lose out to cities like Manchester or Liverpool.
This reminds me a bit of Eddie Izzard's impression of the Queen: "A plumber? What on Eaaarrrthh is that?" Not everyone can eat at a restaurant nightly. Not everyone can eat. And some of the reason for that is designed into the current system.
In this context it makes sense to look at things from that perspective. On reddit it would of course be different.
You’ll find more slaves per capita in the US where prisoners are widely used as actual slave labor.
A decade ago this stuff may have been more common, but the government has cracked down heavily to the point that it doesn’t exist any more than it does in Europe.