Elon’s statements are the verbal equivalent of getting drunk and vomitting on a wall. Stuff comes up that you never expected to see, it creates a huge mess, and whatever sticks, sticks.

Side note: They do make a damn fine dish washer! (Not European)

Not a dad, but definitely team DeWalt.

That’s overly simplified. Provinces don’t all recieve the same amount of Federal funding for healthcare. Alberta recieved about 6 billion in Federal funding for healthcare, while PEI recieved about 223 million in 2023. Alberta can afford to pay Healthcare professionals more and have been poaching those professionals from Atlantic Canada creating crises in places like Nova Scotia where the population has greatly increased through the pandemic. So, yes of course if you pay those professionals more you’ll solve problems in some places and cause more problems elsewhere.

Now, provinces can up their own taxes to make up for short falls, but guess how popular that will make the ruling parties that chose that.

The solution needs to be a lot more nuanced than just pay them more.

Edit: clarification

I attended both a Halloween and Christmas party where the hosts had invited someone selling sex toys. Much hilarity and shenanigans ensued. They were both great parties.

It’s called the “Paradox of Tolerance” if we are tolerant of all including the intolerant than intolerance will eventually win out and eliminate tolerance, therefore society should not tolerate the intolerant.

That one yielded some interesting results.

“Jurassic Park but the dinosaurs are replaced by giant angry guinea pigs”

The prompt was something like: “Jurassic Park but the dinosaurs are replaced with giant angry hamsters”

Sorry, just got dig down through the plurality of negatives you just laid down there.

I mean the Tin-Man didn’t have a heart and he wasn’t a total ass. The literature is inconsistent in that area. We have to work with the metaphors we have at our disposal.

“For those who don’t know, New Year’s in Russia is like Christmas in the west.”

So you’re saying Putin is the Grinch who stole New Years? That checks.

When tech companies say they want to “democratize” they typically mean they are making a service more widely available to the consumer. The democracy bit is that the consumer “votes” with their wallet. A notable early adopter was Amazon, and I would hardly think that the public, today, see that organization as a paragon of virtue. So, in this sense of the word we’re somewhat failing ourselves here.

In the context you present, the companies themselves become little democracies internally. This sounds nice but would ultimately lead to chaos and ruin for those companies. I think this would lead to highly unstable, unprofitable businesses that no investor would ever give money to, or at least not expect any returns from.

Furthermore, I don’t necessarily think it would benefit the consumer in the end. Maybe the employees mostly vote to have a good solid ethical company, or maybe they vote in their own best interests to bring home higher wages and/or just keep their jobs safe. One could argue we just witnessed one such example of this with the recent OpenAI debacle with Sam Altman. Board fired him for potentially going against the stated charter of the company (one that has an ethical basis of essentially putting the security and well being of humanity above all else), at the risk of destroying an $87billion company, yet the employees staged a mutiny forcing the board to reinstate him.

But I digress. At the end of the day I think the most we can ever really expect from companies is that they will, inevitably, find new and creative ways to extract ever increasing amounts of money from us, until such time that we simply cease giving it to them.

Edit: spelling.

Going to have to say no. Not intentionally at least. Especially since I’m not sure what you’re referring to. A quick search suggests a beach in Greece? I dunno, this is just what the AI spat out when I gave it “Cannibal frogs on vacation”. I think it just butchered the spelling as it is often want to do.

That’s pretty much how my wife and I ended up together. I studied amphibians, she likes amphibians, Yada Yada Yada, married.

What did these poor peasant frogs do to deserve this?

First rule of metal spikey end club.