Why does the cost of living go up by the same amount though? Yeah some domestic industries that rely on low income workers like food and agriculture would have increased payroll costs, but how are other major living costs like rent, foreign made goods, and transportation tied to minimum wage?
I love asking them to explain what negative consequences raising minimum wage would have for inflation and the economy, then asking them to explain how lowering income taxes wouldn’t be even worse.
Again, I’m no Elon stan. You don’t have to convince me he’s a dbag, and I wish some other competitor would come along with something better.
That’s what the government should do then, help create a Canadian competitor… 🤷
Oh hey look, we have the real world Firecracker!
For context I’m running KDE Neon on an Intel/Nvidia desktop. When KDE 6 first came out there were a lot of weird issues caused by the switch to Wayland like windows having flickering or strange rendering issues, but as the months have gone by almost all the issues I noticed at first have been getting fixed and disappearing, with only occasional new ones popping up.
The post mentioned a wireless mesh network, so it sounds like the ISP/provider already has a bunch of wireless access points set up to cover the whole building. One of the problems with high-density living spaces is that there are only a limited number of communication channels WiFi can use, so if everyone living there also runs their own wireless networks they use up all the available channels and have to cross-talk over eachother, leading to everything slowing down.
Money corrupts absolutely everything: science, politics, people…
I would suggest in the future that instead of spoiling your ballot you can decline your ballot instead. Spoiled ballots are considered rejected because it’s not clear if you meant to vote for someone but messed up versus not wanting to vote. Declined ballots are separately counted and will show political parties that there are eligible voters who went through the work to show up but intentionally did not want to support any candidates on the ballot.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/ontario-votes-2022-declined-ballots-rise-1.6466308
When a corporation or private individual uses their large pool of capital to subsidize an unsustainable business model that undercuts and disrupts the competition until it can establish market dominance, that’s called venture capitalism. When a government does the exact same thing, that’s called communism.
The typical American mindset of “corporation good, government bad”.
Before Elon acquired Twitter, the platform enforced an one-sided policy of censoring right-wing points of view. It even started actively shielding the left from any criticism, such as when the Hunter Biden Laptop story was blatantly censored so as to not affect Joe Biden’s presidential campaign negatively.
What’s funny is that there are a slew of articles from 2019 to 2022, before Musk’s takeover, talking about a study that found Twitter’s algorithm actually had a right wing bias because conservative opinions generated higher engagement (both positive and negative) so it boosted them more than liberal ones.
Also Elon has censored many news stories about himself and his companies since his acquisition. He hasn’t stopped censorship, he merely took control of it.
A handful of citations:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59011271
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/twitter-musk-censors-turkey-election-erdogan
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-journalists-free-speech-mashable-matt-binder
Good Old Projection: The Republicans are already using X to cheat the election and they don’t want competition.
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Face eating leopard says they have to continue eating faces because there is nothing else to eat.
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The fair market wage is determined by the same market forces of supply and demand. If they can’t find local workers at the wage they are offering, raise the wage until they can. If they can’t afford the wages necessary to staff their business with local employees and still make a profit, then they have failed as a business. Simple as that.
Temporary foreign workers are supposed to fill skill gaps in the economy when not enough qualified workers exist, not to supply cheap labour when employers want to improve their bottom line.
I’d also like to point out that smaller local businesses don’t have the power and money to exploit temporary foreign workers in the way corporations such as Tim Hortons can, putting them at a severe disadvantage to compete with them. These businesses still manage to survive in most markets, but would grow and thrive if the playing field was leveled. Fuck corporations, support small local businesses.
I think taste builds up a tolerance to sweet in the same way it does for heat. I used to drink lots of soda, but I stopped drinking it completely and now when I have a sip of Coke it tastes WAY too sweet and I can barely stand it. For people who eat lots of fast and ultra-processed foods packed with added sugar, salt, and fat, they need more extremes like this shake to overcome their tolerance in the same way a person who eats lots of spicy foods gets bored with jalapenos and needs ghost peppers and Carolina reapers that would destroy most other people’s palettes.
Advertisers believe they are doing you a favour by using personal information to serve “better” ads that would be more “interesting” to you.
This is the weirdest paid product placement I’ve ever seen. We really need to get money out of politics… /s
Okay, so if giving a smaller group of people who earn minimum wage a 10% increase would cause these price increases, wouldn’t it be far worse to give everyone a flat 10% personal income tax cut? Surely that would make inflation go absolutely bonkers as greedy capitalists all raise prices to gobble up the extra money flowing into the hands of the people and leave them no better off right? How about we raise taxes instead and the opposite happens, people can’t afford these things and corporations and landlords are forced to drop prices to meet the new “supply” of general wages, making no material difference to the individual person but instead clawing that money from the capitalists back to the government who can spend it on public works like infrastructure, welfare, even subsidized housing for low income earners?