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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Canada's immigration is controlled. You can't literally just walk in and live here. You are against the current immigration targets that Canada has (well, had, recent news has the governing Liberals cutting those targets by 25%). I contend that your ire should be directed towards your provincial and the federal government's housing strategy. It's no secret that Doug Ford is in bed with exactly the private developers I have mentioned are not serving our society well. Why are we not adopting the Vienna housing model nationwide? The affordability issue is a solved problem where we are refusing to apply the solution because lining someone's pockets is the first order of business for leadership.

Adding workers adds value to our society. Our problem is that most of the value created is going to a select few at the top. Such problems as people like to complain about with regard to immigration would disappear if we did a better job redistributing that value back to the people who create it.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

No. Being anti-immigration is misunderstanding how growth and economics work. "Jobs" are not a non-renewable resource that can be consumed and used up. Humans do consume economic activity, it's true, but they also are the source of it. More people = more needs = more jobs. This is obvious if you think about it for two seconds. It's why cities don't collapse under their own weight after crossing some population threshold. It's why there is far more economic activity and available jobs in cities than in podunk towns where that imagined non-renewable economic activity hasn't been used up yet.

Where there are issues in relation to population growth, ie housing, they are political issues related to how we develop infrastructure and housing. That is to say, our reliance on private developers and public private partnerships where things don't get built unless someone gets to profit from it has not served us well. What we need is planning. Canada has plenty of space, no other country on Earth is as well suited as we are to bring in plenty of people. We could be building entirely new cities if we wanted, we have the room. What's more, doing so could help us develop an internal economy that allows us to free ourselves from dependence on the American market, a dependence that has allowed them to turn us into what is essentially a resource colony.

You should acquaint yourself with the Labour Theory of Value.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

I do, because I knew this race was going to be close and I went to sleep as I didn't want worrying over this election to interfere with that sleep. Now upon waking I find out my sleep gets to be interfered with until those mail in ballots are settled. My lord, this is way too close for comfort.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't think Trump demanding the other party go back to the previous candidate so he can have a better chance doesn't come across as inherently insane? Not to mention makes him look very desperate?

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

This person is probably making a joke based on the similarity of the author, Steve Benon, and Steve Banon's names.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I find I'm fine so long as I don't rub my face on the cat and wash my hands before touching my face.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Why don't you tell us what you think of people who get abortions, uzi? Or your feelings on trans people.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

None of Doug Ford's friends are heavily invested in bicycle manufacturers, I guess.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why don't you just stay inside your borders, AB government?

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

A semi recent movie in this vein I liked a lot is Possessor.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Alternative headline: "Homes buyers can comfortably afford increasingly rare."

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