Canadian Politics Today

This is a must-see IMO.  When capitalism is failing on arguments from billionaires that aren't even MORAL arguments then it's done.

I don't think raising minimum wage will fix the issue of inequality, it largely creates inflation too.  I think you need to tax the very wealthy.

I don't get your point.  Which point do you disagree on ?

Yes but he makes the point.  And Ontario did the same thing with almost no impact right ?

I've seen no comprehensive studies on the impact of the ON wage increase, good or bad.  They also went to $14, not $15.

It could be a small part in helping the issue, but it won't solve it.

His assertion that there will be pitchforks is alarmist nonsense IMO.  We live in a democracy.  When people get fed up they will elect populist leaders on the left and right to solve this issue, which is what people are starting to do now.  The elitist politicians on the right and left who kiss the butts of the plutocrats need to be voted out.

1. The problem is far, far worse in the US.  They'll crack first, we'll learn their lessons and adapt hopefully.

2. MH lives in Toronto, there's a ton of inequality there too, but not as much in the rest of the country.

3. In a place like Toronto I don't see how you calm inequality.  You have people working downtown in the financial capital of the country, while also having the #1 destinations of dirt-poor refugees from developing countries.  Massive inequality in that case is inevitable.

4. In the US, you have uneducated slums plus masses of latin American migrants without much skills, plus a middle class whose unionized jobs have been exported overseas, within the wealthiest country in the world.