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by voisin 2y ago
I’m not sure it is the Chinese tech companies that produced prosperity. It is due to their low cost manufacturing base for the last thirty years and consequent rapid urbanization. If anything, their tech companies have been largely laggards
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by voisin 2y ago
To be fair, it isn’t only the rich they make richer. Think pension plans and other regular folk who rely on returns in their portfolio to retire.
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Do you come across homeless people directly impacted by or even upset about Google’s mass layoffs?
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by voisin 2y ago
Capitalism evolved. That’s like saying “did the first settler of Chicago not think through the future problem of crime?”
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by voisin 2y ago
Then vote for government that doesn’t allow companies to grow to government scale. Western antitrust regulations are not being enforced properly and it is to everyone’s detriment.
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by voisin 2y ago
Google isn’t a work program. It is set up to make money and return money to investors either via capital gains (buybacks) or income (dividends). The fact that they laid people off means they felt they could accomplish this mission better wi
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by voisin 2y ago
In Canada bananas were $0.33/lb for the longest time. In the last two years they have gone to $0.69 - $0.89/lb.
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by voisin 2y ago
> When you break down CPI, the inflation is almost entirely on the back of rising mortgage interest costs. This is only true recently as the interest rate hikes took a while to filter down to actual mortgages and then make it into the CP
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by voisin 2y ago
> I went to Canada to see the eclipse and was absolutely shocked how cheap it was to go to the grocery store. Not only was the currency conversion in my favor, the prices were reasonable and aligned to what I remember from pre-pandemic t
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by voisin 2y ago
> In a wealthy first world country, it's very difficult to pay a living wage while also keeping prices low. Is this true? I have repeatedly come across people saying tipping in North America is insane since in most of the rest of th
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by voisin 2y ago
What will you do once the propane runs out? Solar (and battery) is the way to go.
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by voisin 2y ago
Best way to prep is strong community connections around you. Community is resiliency.
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by voisin 2y ago
I for one would love to know why people are downvoting you as I think you’ve made a good argument. I’d love someone to pipe up with the counter argument.
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For whom?
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And these categories aren’t known until you check out? Come on…
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They are hoping to delay the sticker shock until the customer has crossed the rubicon. It’s highly unethical.
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I’d love if Canada had retailers bake sales taxes into the price. What you see is what you pay.
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by voisin 2y ago
> This is a blunder of epic proportions. Really? Would you put this blunder on par with Meta’s quixotic quest into the Metaverse? Or Boeing’s ditching of its engineering culture? Or “New Coke”? Or would you say it was an ad that a very s
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by voisin 2y ago
> Why that bothers so many here might also be telling. Why are you being triggered? Maybe because we are exhausted by this woke bullshit telling us that everything is meant to offend and we should be offended by everything. Maybe because
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by voisin 2y ago
This is such horse shit. It’s like the university classroom has taken over the world and now everyone gets upset for the sake of getting upset. There’s nothing offensive about this ad at all, and anyone claiming outrage needs to take a hard
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by voisin 2y ago
Ok, I agree with everything you’ve written, but my point was that New York didn’t develop under the zoning laws that we have had since the 1950s municipal central planning paradigm.
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by voisin 2y ago
> I'm a huge proponent of stronger regulation and government involvement in corporate day-to-day. I agree, however we aren’t seeing this in any meaningful fashion, let alone the amount we need to be seeing it to stave off catastroph
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by voisin 2y ago
Good point. Better point: zoning wasn’t a thing for… ~340 of years. People could largely do what they want and co-located uses was the name of the game. Central planning doesn’t fucking work.
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by voisin 2y ago
> Just buy it for pennies on the dollar, slap midtown Manhattan density construction on it, and reap the profits. China has been running a real life Monte Carlo simulation on this for two decades and the results are eerily quiet. Your po
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by voisin 2y ago
> Oil companies are the ones who get their hands dirty, but society as a whole benefits and encourages the oil extraction. Take factory farming as another example - you can blame the factory farms, but good luck telling the average Ameri
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> you need regulation Bingo, except government and industry are so closely related now they resemble a circular human centipede, so we can’t rely on that.
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> Or is the argument that every cloud company should independently decide not to serve this particular industry? If that's true, why are we pressuring private companies at all? Wouldn't it be more effective for the government t
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by voisin 2y ago
> So you wanna tax my mortgage? If you are worth $50m+ and then use a mortgage to generate cash rather than take cash out of your company in order to avoid triggering taxes that affect everyone else, then yes, yes I do. > That just en
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Shell sold carbon credits for carbon that was never captured(cbc.ca)
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by voisin 2y ago
I think all of your concerns disappear when the answer is that the wealth part is not relevant - it is the monetization of that wealth. You can’t eat art or stock. We already tax when you sell the art or stock or earn income off it. What we

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