Chess popular at street during economic downturn

Chess has become more popular on the street  during economic downturn at United State. It taken from  9news.com. Source from Alexandra Kosteniuk - Chessblog.com. This situation will never happened at Malaysia because the effected person  preferred to " planting grapes " or tanam anggur. If economic downturn at Malaysia , we can hear the most popular Malay slogan "balik kampung, tanam jagung".