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  • Untitled4774@sh.itjust.workstoCanada@lemmy.ca•Food Banks Canada says food insecurity is worsening across the country
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    1 month ago

    True!!

    Insanely, unbelievably true.

    Out of all the people on any sort of “hand out” I think the remarkably insignificant are proud of the fact or want to be.

    The fact is that those dollars are INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO THOSE PEOPLE.

    And for every family that may HAVE to take them, once again, notice the distinction as you mentioned, not WANT, there is a chance that those pittances will help them survive another month, and possibly get one step closer to being their own actor in pulling out of the shitty, no good, bullshit that is poverty.

    For every dollar that rich fucks hoard, a needy family could spend in our economy.

    Hoarding does no good and only fuels inflation.

  • Untitled4774@sh.itjust.workstoCanada@lemmy.ca•Housing Crisis, Packed Hospitals and Drug Overdoses: What Happened to Canada?
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    3 months ago

    Once again. Corporations aren’t your friend, no matter the head count. It’s that simple. Don’t simp for people who don’t give a fuck about you or your family. Full stop.

    Second. Again. Capital flight is a boogeyman. Alberta and Sask aren’t comparable. Alberta has cities, amenities and established populations, Sask doesn’t. If you want to take anything flight seriously, how about brain drain in our high paying, sought after career sectors, where we educate our population only for them to leave for better opportunities elsewhere? Doctors aren’t going to stay for the pittance, and software engineers aren’t going to keep staying for the remarkable amount of investment the government is putting to try to establish STEM in Canada because the private sector isn’t competitive with their salaries. Fuck your capital flight, if these are the corporations you’re afraid of leaving I’m more than willing to say goodbye, because the ones who fill the gaps will likely see the case studies and change course.

    I’ll give you a spoiler alert. They’re not going anywhere. Just like they haven’t left Aus, NZ or the other dozen and change 1st world countries with high corporate tax rates than Canada. It’s not happening, you’re afraid of a ghost.

  • Untitled4774@sh.itjust.workstoCanada@lemmy.ca•Housing Crisis, Packed Hospitals and Drug Overdoses: What Happened to Canada?
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    3 months ago

    Corporations aren’t your friends, they aren’t going to give you any preferential treatment that they aren’t seeing the better side of.

    Capital flight is also not a thing, it’s a bogeyman set up by conservatives to avoid raising taxes.

    Businesses also won’t leave. Their remarkable treatment in Canada will go down to slightly less remarkable. They moan and groan and set up a whole ad campaign about how this is going to hurt the consumer but that means it’s working. And if you mean “small business” there are so so so many way ways to create exceptions or offer grants to Canadians starting or operating small businesses, where the target is larger oligopolies and conglomerates.