What town/state are we talking about?
Is it a mining town where the mines are shutdown?
Is it a mill town where the mills are shutdown?
Is it a auto manufacturing town where the cars went obsolete?
Agricultural town where the farms are gone?
For a people who won the cold war y'all are very defensive about this whole thing lol. Like the slightest acknowledgement that this system also sucks for a lot of people means we're headed straight for the gulags again.