Ah yes, not a good person even when it would be advantageous to you, sorry I forgot you’re actively trying to be an asshole lmao We had already established that, sorry.

You’re the one who ridiculed someone for “believ[ing] Canada has anything resembling free speech?”

You’re the one making stupid assessment, why would I be the one providing proof?

It’s always the same with you people lol

Huge companies used to make a lot of stuff back in the golden age of capitalism. General electric was a big chemicals and plastics company for instance. It was just normal.

Nowadays, those mega-corporations make more money acting as a bank than they do selling stuff. They’ve just kept some product lines rolling because they’re profitable and safe.

You couldn’t just start a motorcycle company and be competitive against Yamaha. The specific expertise they have took decades to build, so why waste it by closing down those weird branches when they’re still making money.

It sure is better than “It is because I said so, and I’ll stop talking to you because you don’t agree”. Lmao

Go on then, what rights do you have that I don’t?

Because maybe, just maybe, you’re a good person?

Oh and also because pretty much every economist agrees that lower inequalities are better for the economy. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

It sounds absolutely great in theory, but in practice it could never work.

Say I want to build a house: As a society, we’ve come up with mandatory building codes that tell me how to build a house that’s going to be safe for everyone.

Suppose we got rid of this regulation for libertarianism’s sake.

Most people would still build to code because that’s just the smart thing to do but a small proportion of people would build it the cheapest way possible because it is now their god-given right to do so.

When that house inevitably fails at the worst possible time, I don’t care too much about what happens to the guy himself. He understood the risk and did it anyways. But in a worst case scenario, he could’ve been hosting a kids party that day or something.

Now apply this analogy to… Basically any regulation you’d want to get rid of.

It’s kind of always a balancing act between stopping people from killing each other from sheer stupidity, and letting them do and say whatever the fuck they want when they’re between their own four walls, and pure libertarianism doesn’t allow for that.

Billionaire is already a slur.

No one makes that much money without screwing over and abusing other people. There are no ethical billionaires.

Lmao alright gotcha you’re just not arguing in good faith then.

You’re just stating an opinion and presenting it as an inarguable fact lol

Nah what I’m saying is that most states’ taxation rates are pretty close to what you’d get in other developed countries.

Except pretty much every other developed country has cheap healthcare and education. The US is truly alone in this, and it shows, because the US also has some of the worst inequalities of the modern world.

TBH the temperature humans can stand is easy in metric too. 10-30 is livable. 30-40 is getting real fucking hot. 0-10 is cold but you can cope with a little clothing

-30 to 0, though, you’re gonna need special winter clothes and shit. I would not consider 0F (~ -17C) to be the limit of what we can stand, and I’m Canadian.

IMO, the only logical part of the American date system is that it’s the same way you would say it (July 1st 2023).

Since English is my second language, though, and in French you would say 1er Juillet 2023, it still fucks me up anytime a date is like 10/10/2023.

They love to tell us about how hard they had it because they worked 2 jobs to buy their first house at 22 lmao

Depends on how you define deliberate. The wealth gap between the super rich and the rest of us is getting bigger and bigger, and a lot of those issues seem related to that.

“Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced [robots] wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.” -Stephen Hawking

Welp, since you seem believe that USA is #1 in free speech, bullshit seems to sort of be your thing, no?

Not unless you’re in like Arizona or Florida or other shit low-taxes states full of freedumb.

Because mediocrity is so much more important than diversity.

Of course they do.

As we say: “Police partout, Justice nullepart”.

Aye

I’d even say it fucking makes cense!

Canada scores higher than the US in most freedom of speech indexes/rankings.

I have a feeling you’ve bought bridges before, haven’t you.