Okay, so if giving a smaller group of people who earn minimum wage a 10% increase would cause these price increases, wouldn't it be far worse to give everyone a flat 10% personal income tax cut? Surely that would make inflation go absolutely bonkers as greedy capitalists all raise prices to gobble up the extra money flowing into the hands of the people and leave them no better off right? How about we raise taxes instead and the opposite happens, people can't afford these things and corporations and landlords are forced to drop prices to meet the new "supply" of general wages, making no material difference to the individual person but instead clawing that money from the capitalists back to the government who can spend it on public works like infrastructure, welfare, even subsidized housing for low income earners?

Why does the cost of living go up by the same amount though? Yeah some domestic industries that rely on low income workers like food and agriculture would have increased payroll costs, but how are other major living costs like rent, foreign made goods, and transportation tied to minimum wage?

I love asking them to explain what negative consequences raising minimum wage would have for inflation and the economy, then asking them to explain how lowering income taxes wouldn't be even worse.

Again, I'm no Elon stan. You don't have to convince me he's a dbag, and I wish some other competitor would come along with something better.

That's what the government should do then, help create a Canadian competitor... 🤷

I'm so glad the blue check marks are working as intended to combat bots and boost real voices. /s

We won't need guillotines if we can just make it trendy for billionaires to do dumb shit like this. 👍

Oh, like the time in 2009 when the US government gave $81 billion dollars to the automotive industry? Or again in 2023 when Biden put $12 billion in incentives on the table for them to make EVs?

Everyone: Don't say anything sensitive or personal to an AI because it could end up in training data!

Microsoft: We're making it easier to feed everything you do on your computer to an AI from notepad to your desktop!

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Article title should be "people who treated a basic need as an investment crying that they cannot realize the overinflated value of their investment without becoming homeless". 🙄

The changes that lead to the protest were only the preparations for an IPO. When that sale actually happens, I think things will get even worse with new corporate interests and influence. This story isn't over.

It seems like "parental rights" is the new strategy that far right radicals are using to erode personal rights and freedoms. Up here in Canada they're using it to force gender non-conforming children to be outted to their parents by their schools, and even acknowledge the violation to the rights of children through the use of the notwithstanding clause: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-bill-137-notwithstanding-clause-1.6993335

Your comment to keep politics out of hockey is also political, so you should delete it or accept your own hypocrisy.