https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I feel as though money is the lifeblood of society, and I feel when you debase it and squander it people become poorer. Those who horde finite assets become very rich, and real estate gets bid up as an inflation hedge, the currency debasement I believe is the reason we are getting poorer.
The government should just open it up for public grocery stores and stop large corporation like Loblaws from buying and leasing it. Allow new entrants access like they do Telecoms, treat it as a natural monopoly in its current state, since we’ve so royally screwed up real estate.
Well it must have done so at some point, thats the main difference between first world countries and third world.
Well there was a great society program in the 60’s that ran up debt, by do-gooders who didnt properly fund their ambitions.
Society needs to learn that we need to actually tax the rich and run low deficits if we want to spend big on social programs.
They’re billionaires because of monetary policy, Elon Musk and Tesla wouldnt be worth so much if inflation didnt reward risky assets and provide an unlimited runway to profitability. We bid up asset prices until prices rise 2% a year; prices that exclude assets like housing, subjective hedonic downward adjustments of goods prices, and substitutions/shrinkflation.
Blame the rich if you want, I blame the unelected central bank thats debasing your paycheck with 7% annual money supply growth, QE, and bailouts. If the money supply didnt grow every year you wouldnt need to beg your boss for a cost of living adjustment that doesnt match reality. Our parents ate free range grass fed meat, we eat corn fed factory farm troglodytes, and our children will eat highly processed imitation meat slop, and the CPI will mark no difference between the three.
Maybe the NDP should stop committing seppuku by supporting mass immigration and brainrot ideas like government run grocery stores?
Margins on grocery stores for food are terrible, Loblaws margins are almost entirely from real estate, like everything in Canada. So deal with the shortage of space and bring down commercial real estate prices so we can have competition.
Its also true that more efficient businesses increases living standards.
I’m not sure AI will ever replace truly skilled labor, because it hallucinates. It replaces people who make PowerPoint’s or Excel documents.
Was it sad when people who looked after horses were made obsolete when we began mass producing cars?
Or people who stoked furnaces?
This romanization of monotonous jobs is silly, and sounds like it wants to thrust us into poverty for some idealistic fantasy that excludes productivity gains. It also seems unrealistic, you cant trust code written by a programmer that randomly hallucinates and cant reliably check their work or explain what they even did.
That is very interesting, thank you.
That sounds amazing.
A union requirement is a great fix. Or a 25-50% wage tax, perhaps that goes towards housing or education.
I just don’t believe the rationale, there is no way threads or even Bluesky match X, its clearly political.
Take the high road and go to open platforms, just don’t lie about why youre supporting the other shitty platforms that censor.
Its unsafe for worker’s, hence the double digit youth unemployment in our largest city.
Well I have to just assume given they support the other platforms.
Thundermail seems cool at least, as an encrypted email service.
Why leave X but stay on Facebook, Insta, bluesky, youtube, linkedin, ticktock, and threads?
This is clearly political, they clearly love censorship, they clearly just didnt like when it wasnt censored in the ways they wanted.
Well thats entirely my point, the problem in Canada is overpriced real estate, due to government policy.
You’re slapping lipstick on a pig and calling it a great idea.