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  • most of it…

    • didn’t/doesn’t address housing shortage.

    Not sure what to say about this. This is a failure of every level of government, some levels are more willing to try to address part of this while other levels are actively trying to make it worse. To me this statement feels like it comes from someone who is frustrated but hasn’t taken the time to understand the problem that they are frustrated with.

    • didn’t/doesn’t address inflation.

    Inflation is being dealt with… Things are nearly back to normal levels of inflation. You can’t say that it’s not being addressed.

    • increases taxation as a means to get more income flow to the government

    This is normal and a good thing? I’m also not sure which taxes you’re referring to? Our taxes haven’t really changed much recently.

    • spends crazy(milions and bilions) on S.D.G ideals

    Unless you have meaningful examples there isn’t anything I can say here.

    • makes it impossible for farmers to meet (Co2 etc)regulations
      • and government buys them out…
      • and Schiphol etc buying that land for extra CO2 credit.

    Once again I need some sources on this, this sounds like something you heard and are repeating without taking the time to understand what was being talked about and now you’re trying to pass it off as fact.

    • has crazy ‘sustainability’ demains, which makes international production business move elsewhere

    Not sure what you’re talking about here. Is this referring to businesses “offshoring” the production of goods? This has been happening for a long time and I hope that we can start bring more manufacturing back “onshore”

    • increasing poverty. People requiring food-bank support is increasing, but because of increasingly harsh business environment the food-bank actually obtains less from industrie.

    Yes poverty is up, but not for the reasons you’re suggesting(unless you have some new data I haven’t seen). food inflation is going to be the new norm until the world gets the climate crisis under control. Our global agriculture system is not built to handle the rapidly changing climate we’ve created. droughts, floods and war are likely going to continue to cause price instability.

    • many small/medium businesses are going bust because they can’t repay the corona-loan. (which many have warned is a slow death trap)

    This is also normal? Many economists believe that economic downswings every 7-15 years is good for an economy because it helps wipe out under preforming businesses. if a company took out 60k in loans, and after 4 years hasn’t been able to pay back the 40k they owe (20k was already forgiving), and also can’t find a bank to move that loan to, they are likely not running a very good business.

    I’m glad that we gave these businesses a lifeline during covid, but at some point they need to prove that they can adapt to the new market conditions. No one forced them to take these loans…


    So ya, to me most of this was a mix of unsubstantiated opinion and vague concepts, which I feel is acceptable to call nonsense





  • Sponsors pay more upfront. If creators are only using sponsors than their whole back catalogue is basically valueless. If it costs a creator 2-10 cents a month to host a video (based off S3 pricing), but they only made 1000$ on it upfront when the video was made, overtime the back catalogue becomes a pretty significant financial burden if it’s not being monetized

    Also it’s worth keeping in mind that many people are also using tools to autoskip sponsor spots, and the only leverage creators have for being paid by sponsors are viewership numbers.

    Patreon is irrelevant, that’s just like Nebula, floatplane etc, it’s essentially a subscription based alternative to YouTube.

    Discoverability is pointless if the people discovering you aren’t going to financial contribute. It’s the age old “why don’t you work for me for free, the exposure I provide will make it worth your time”, that hasn’t been true before and likely isn’t here. Creators aren’t looking to work for free (at least not the ones creating the high quality content we’re used to today)







  • I’m always confused by these criticisms, do I misunderstand how they work?

    Reading this article, this 1.7million is an interest free loan, so taxpayers are only covering the lost potential of that money being used elsewhere, unless something happens whichs exempts them paying back.

    For the various EV related plants, the majority of the subsidies are tax rebates. Which means the company needs to setup and actively operating in Canada such that they are making enough revenue in Canada that their paying enough taxes to be able to untalize any rebate. As Canadian taxpayers the tax revenue were missing is purely net-new revenue that wouldn’t exist if the company didn’t setup here. It’s not like we’re writing a blank check, we’re just saying that if they setup here and start making money, they can pay us less money for the first while.

    Neither of those feel like obvious bad deals for Canadians. Am I missing something?


  • Ok I’ll bite. How does Canadian policy cause global inflation?

    The only angle that I can think of is that we’ve had a larger impact on carbon production than most other countries, and at least when it comes to global food inflation, climate change is having a noticable impact. So one might be able to argue that our role in climate change is causing food inflation. But I doubt anyone has actually done any peer reviewed studies on that so it’s likely just assumptions at best.








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    It started good, but then started to fall into typical conservative taking points.

    He correctly identified that the problem started when Canada sold off crown corporations, but then attributed the problem to over regulation of these newly private cooperation.

    Somehow he also called CBC a monopoly in there, which is a wild jump.

    My main take away from this video is the best solution is to deregulate (the other points were “increase competition”, but at this point that’s like politians saying they will create more nurses or doctors, unless you also state a plan I assume you’re just blowing smoke). His argument for how deregulating airlines or banking or ISPs would make things better for us didn’t really exist.

    Regulations might make it hard to start a new bank, so I’ll give him that. But I have a hard time seeing how regulations is what’s preventing new ISPs or grocery stores from cropping up.

    Overall in my opinion it’s a captivating video that lacks any substance, which is typical for politicans, but also disappointing because you don’t often get to hear them talk about something for over 10 minutes where they actually do have time to explain a plan properly.