• Soup@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Do you know what a healthy economy is? Do you know how to measure it? Every single year, inflation outpaces most people’s buying power. A healthy, strong economy is one where small amounts of money change hands often, and where everyone has a place in it. It’s one where people have choice, and companies hire more people than necessary so that newer generations are trained. It’s one where we people can have savings, and where the generational expectation is retirement and homeownership. That’s not what we have, and that’s not what funnelling money to corporations will give us.

    Instead, we have inflation outpacing wages, a housing crisis, all our levels of government sucking landlord dick, and a PM who thinks that unions are dumb as evidenced by his response to the Air Canada strike last year. We have a government that is giving nearly 9bil in development fee discounts to Ontario builders that their customers will never see reflected in the price.

    Stop with this “it’s a tricky balance” crap. It’s not, you’re just absolutely scared shitless of something of value being imperfect so you retreat to excuses for why we can’t do anything at all.

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      5 days ago

      No - I think we should do things. But we do need to keep things going while we transition. Yes things are bad and clearly a conservative banker is not going to be very progressive. But I just think you might be missing how bad things are for Canada with its biggest trading partner fucking it over. And what that means to Canadians unless drastic measures. Things are crappy now but they really can get a lot worse if we’re not careful .

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        4 days ago

        Nah bro, you’re just a moron who thinks that progressive ideals being simply better than this fuck-shit mess makes them “too extreme”. Coward behaviour based entirely in your feels and right-wing propaganda and I don’t have any more time for it.

        “If we’re not careful” I mean this from the bottom of my heart, go fuck yourself.

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          4 days ago

          Ok, you’ve convinced me - you and your ilk are fucking morons and it’s way to dangerous to let you make any changes.

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            4 days ago

            You literally have no concept of what progressive politics actually looks like and run entirely on vibes fed to you to by the right. You’re either a scared little baby or actively trying to spread misinformation, both are pathetic.