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Financial illiteracy is a little fucking harsh, no? We know we’re getting absolutely shafted.

jamal-kumar 4y ago
Then why aren't you doing anything about it? Why is the contrast between Canada and the rest of the world palpably stark? Why do banks get away with disgusting loopholes like getting around laws by calling themselves "financial advisers" rather than advisOrs? A little harsh? Do something about it enough that I might consider returning
- cmrdporcupine 4y ago
  Oh please lost child return to us. We're begging you to come back. Gimme a break. We are a country with 1/10th the population of the US -- the largest economy in the world and an aggressive military power -- and we're sitting right next to it, for most of our history barely holding onto an independent existence. Most of our "successful" industries consist of "ripping and shipping" raw commodities to service that market. It should not surprise you why things are the way they are. It's gross how these domestic industries end up this way, captured by a cabal of self-serving corporate dickheads, but TBH on the whole the alternative would be raw subservience to US corporations who would steamroll our entire economy. There is no easy answer, or it would have been done already.
  - jamal-kumar 4y ago
    I mean the easy answer for me was taking off, and now the country seems to be facing a brain drain. [1] Good luck with that I guess. [1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article-canadas-tech-sector-has-a-brain-drain-problem/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article...
    - cmrdporcupine 4y ago
      This has always been the case. You're not special or particularly interesting. It was, however, amusing watching so many Canadians return during the Trump years and COVID. Our Google office in Waterloo almost doubled in size from returning Canadians. But we frankly should have clawed the subsidized portion of your tuition from you before you left the country.
      - jamal-kumar 4y ago
        I dunno I've been gone for a long time now. You want my tax return, too? I'll send you scans of my ID so you can steal my identity and score that I love letting condescending Google employees steal my identity ever since deleting my Gmail account
        cmrdporcupine 4y ago
        Don't worry, I'm not at Google anymore. My condescension is inherent and essential, not a property of my employment. But I probably wouldn't have let it loose if you didn't come across as a precious ass, yourself.
        jamal-kumar 4y ago
        That's candy ass to you bucko This is the closest I've come to a flamewar on this site, thanks for the cheap entertainment
        jagger27 4y ago
        You’re being needlessly combative and hostile.
      - sandworm101 4y ago
        They flocked back under W too. Canadians ebb and flow across the boarder depending on how crazy US culture is at the particular moment.
        frosted-flakes 4y ago
- jagger27 4y ago
  What exactly can be done? Vote harder?
  - jamal-kumar 4y ago
    Well considering if you voted in a party whose promise of voting reform has been heavily rescinded, I think pressing them to fulfill that promise would be a start.
    - jagger27 4y ago
      Not sure what gave you the impression I voted red or the authority to assert that I did. When a Liberal federal candidate came to my door last election cycle the electoral reform about face was the first thing I grilled them on. I didn’t get a satisfying answer. First past the post is not going away any time soon.

Then why aren't you doing anything about it? Why is the contrast between Canada and the rest of the world palpably stark? Why do banks get away with disgusting loopholes like getting around laws by calling themselves "financial advisers" rather than advisOrs? A little harsh? Do something about it enough that I might consider returning

cmrdporcupine 4y ago
Oh please lost child return to us. We're begging you to come back. Gimme a break. We are a country with 1/10th the population of the US -- the largest economy in the world and an aggressive military power -- and we're sitting right next to it, for most of our history barely holding onto an independent existence. Most of our "successful" industries consist of "ripping and shipping" raw commodities to service that market. It should not surprise you why things are the way they are. It's gross how these domestic industries end up this way, captured by a cabal of self-serving corporate dickheads, but TBH on the whole the alternative would be raw subservience to US corporations who would steamroll our entire economy. There is no easy answer, or it would have been done already.
- jamal-kumar 4y ago
  I mean the easy answer for me was taking off, and now the country seems to be facing a brain drain. [1] Good luck with that I guess. [1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article-canadas-tech-sector-has-a-brain-drain-problem/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article...
  - cmrdporcupine 4y ago
    This has always been the case. You're not special or particularly interesting. It was, however, amusing watching so many Canadians return during the Trump years and COVID. Our Google office in Waterloo almost doubled in size from returning Canadians. But we frankly should have clawed the subsidized portion of your tuition from you before you left the country.
    - jamal-kumar 4y ago
      I dunno I've been gone for a long time now. You want my tax return, too? I'll send you scans of my ID so you can steal my identity and score that I love letting condescending Google employees steal my identity ever since deleting my Gmail account
      - cmrdporcupine 4y ago
        Don't worry, I'm not at Google anymore. My condescension is inherent and essential, not a property of my employment. But I probably wouldn't have let it loose if you didn't come across as a precious ass, yourself.
        jamal-kumar 4y ago
        That's candy ass to you bucko This is the closest I've come to a flamewar on this site, thanks for the cheap entertainment
      - jagger27 4y ago
        You’re being needlessly combative and hostile.
    - sandworm101 4y ago
      They flocked back under W too. Canadians ebb and flow across the boarder depending on how crazy US culture is at the particular moment.
      - frosted-flakes 4y ago
jagger27 4y ago
What exactly can be done? Vote harder?
- jamal-kumar 4y ago
  Well considering if you voted in a party whose promise of voting reform has been heavily rescinded, I think pressing them to fulfill that promise would be a start.
  - jagger27 4y ago
    Not sure what gave you the impression I voted red or the authority to assert that I did. When a Liberal federal candidate came to my door last election cycle the electoral reform about face was the first thing I grilled them on. I didn’t get a satisfying answer. First past the post is not going away any time soon.