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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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« Reply #300 on: April 23, 2023, 04:55:30 pm »
Now go buy a house and some groceries.

I have a friend living in Toronto.  We were talking about the random subway attacks in Toronto.  They said they think many of these attacks are from frustrated and disillusioned people dealing with the economic cost of living issues and other issues like maybe COVID isolation.  They are going mental and lashing out.  Canary in the coal mine.

These could be mass shootings, but luckily we don't have the gun laws and gun culture like the US.
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« Reply #301 on: April 23, 2023, 11:15:38 pm »
Yeah.  When I go grocery shopping I get sticker-shock at every item I put in my basket.

Trying to go to the people with the argument that things are going great won't work out well for them.  And a chart showing that people in Italy or the UK have it even worse won't make people feel like the government is doing a great job either.

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« Reply #302 on: April 24, 2023, 12:13:03 pm »
Yeah.  When I go grocery shopping I get sticker-shock at every item I put in my basket.

Trying to go to the people with the argument that things are going great won't work out well for them.  And a chart showing that people in Italy or the UK have it even worse won't make people feel like the government is doing a great job either.

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I wish grocery stores would stop gouging people too.  I’d like to see either a tax on profits of grocery stores beyond a certain point, or prices regulated.   Oh wait…. Are you guys saying it’s all Trudeau’s fault again…?   I do too, but for actual reasons, not made up silly sh!t you’re buying into. 

Yes, there has been inflation, but this is across all countries.  Tough to blame a single government for that, no?

Trudeau is talking about grocery rebates for people.  LOL   So, grocery stores will still gouge people, but some people will get a few dollars back.  This is a corporate subsidy.   Why not just pay the grocery stores to lower their prices?   Same thing! 

Trudeau isn’t helping, not because he causes inflation, but because he won’t stop consumer gouging. 

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« Reply #303 on: June 05, 2023, 12:43:46 pm »
Yeah.  When I go grocery shopping I get sticker-shock at every item I put in my basket.

Trying to go to the people with the argument that things are going great won't work out well for them.  And a chart showing that people in Italy or the UK have it even worse won't make people feel like the government is doing a great job either.

Food inflation: How Canada's grocery prices compares to other nations

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A report published in May by e-commerce platform Ubuy compared Canadian food inflation rates to the U.S., U.K., Australia and the European Union. Gathering data from three separate timeframes over the past 12 months, three years and five years, researchers were able to find food inflation ranges differently among several nations.
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 Globally, the report found on average food inflation increased by 18.2 per cent in the last 12 months, 30.8 per cent in the last three years and 36.3 per cent in the last five.

The U.K. and European Union saw the highest inflation spike with both seeing a jump of 19.6 per cent over the last 12 months.
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Despite Canadian food prices reaching new heights in 2022, in comparison to other nations, Canada ranked the second lowest nation in the world for food inflation rate, according to the report.

Over the last 12 months, Canada reported an increase of 8.9 per cent, nearly 10 per cent less than the global average.

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« Reply #304 on: October 18, 2023, 12:24:30 pm »
#BringItHome, hey PeePee!


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« Reply #305 on: January 19, 2024, 01:26:34 pm »
This article made me very sad.   When people have to be plundered for their cash in order to keep the economy, anything that costs money will be seen as a negative.  So... sorry unborn children you are too expensive :(

What are we living for ?

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-birth-rate-decline-grandparents/

Of COURSE:

-Nobody owes anybody a grandchild
-People are free to chose the lives they want
-Woman don't have to give birth to fulfill their womanhood, their lives, etc

But....

-Not being able to 'afford' kids is a travesty to me.  What's next is not being afford to live above the level of a slave because... the economy.  Having children is, for me, something I wanted to do since the start and it's mind-boggling to me that it's not feasible anymore
-Wanting to own shiny objects and toys or to fly to a beach, a rave in Thailand, etc. rather than have children is - YES OF COURSE -a choice but on a grand scale a spiritual decline of some kind
-The fact that people feel that the world is terrible, has a bleak future, or perhaps that families are some kind of horror due to their own experiences is another version of spiritual sickness

Of course we can say that things have always been bad and people always throw up their hands at the current situation no matter how bad but... I can't absorb it objectively


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« Reply #306 on: January 25, 2024, 02:10:45 pm »
This article made me very sad.   When people have to be plundered for their cash in order to keep the economy, anything that costs money will be seen as a negative.  So... sorry unborn children you are too expensive :(

I read this as well and felt the same. 

-Not being able to 'afford' kids is a travesty to me.  What's next is not being afford to live above the level of a slave because... the economy.  Having children is, for me, something I wanted to do since the start and it's mind-boggling to me that it's not feasible anymore
-Wanting to own shiny objects and toys or to fly to a beach, a rave in Thailand, etc. rather than have children is - YES OF COURSE -a choice but on a grand scale a spiritual decline of some kind

They're ultimately the same thing, and the same problem.  More than anything, I would bet the decline in nuclear families and fertility can be directly correlated to an eroding middle class.  When Gen Z and millenials can't even afford rent (let alone home ownership) they never achieve the stability required to partner up and make something happen together.  It's simplistic, but Maslow's Hierarchy of needs would suggest that when people are just surviving day to day, they're not concerning themselves with more long term ideas of fulfillment like kids, love and community. 

Poor stewardship at every level of government over the last 40 years, and a myopic focus on what's good and easiest today, rather than what's actually good long-term, have left younger generations worse off than ever before.  Why solve problems when you can just accumulate debt and kick the can down the road?  Housing crisis?  Pff!  That's my retirement fund! 

How are we expecting young adults to have kids when they can't afford to live anywhere???  Governments like Trudeau's face a reckoning because the generation that their policies (and the governments that preceded them) have **** are starting to become the dominant voting bloc, and his popularity amongst them has cratered. It's too little, too late.  Housing was already a problem 15 years ago, and everything Trudeau's done since then has made the problem worse.  It's not just Trudeau either.  The McGuinty/Wynne Liberals did us dirty in Ontario (Doug Ford hasn't helped) and delusional municipal governments have played their role as well. 
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« Reply #307 on: January 25, 2024, 02:15:10 pm »
I echo this.

I feel so sad for my aging friends who couldn't afford kids...