cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28885132
80% of all grocery sales go to one company
Regulated for by the government of Canada
And before people get angry assuming I’m against regulations I’m not, they’re just used as a weapon by Plutocrats to protect their own private kingdoms
In Canada we have:
2 grocery store parent companies
5 banks
2 railroads
2 telecos
1 power authority per province (in my province it’s a crown corp which is fantastic. Their shareholders are rate paying citizens not private shareholders)
3 shipping companies
What is it for car parent companies now? 3ish?
1 gas provider per province
All of our oil and gas companies are American except for 3
The only competition is among coffee shops and bistros, and even then the biggest chains are owned by 3 companies.
None of the things listed should be run by private corporations at all.
We don’t need competition and innovation in these spaces. We don’t need 35 different kinds of chicken sandwich. We don’t need “options” for gas and electric rates.
We need safe, abundant, high quality, environmentally conscious essential goods and services, delivered AT OR BELOW the cost required to produce and deliver them at scale.
Make it all public ownership.
Big fucking agree!
These are all natural monopolies. Massive, incomprehensible unbelievable amounts of money need to be invested to make a network, and then running the next train, or adding a new gas or power customer is peanuts.
Any time suggesting “hey, maybe we should build an entirely separate system so we can compete” results in people bringing you in for a forced psych eval, you’re talking about a natural monopoly.
It’s illogical to duplicate the network so “pRiVaTe CoMpEtItIoN” now has to negotiate common carrier agreements and the admin overhead makes it twice (sometimes 10X) more expensive than just one crown corporation owning the entire fucking thing!
Yeah but who gets to decide which version of the chicken sandwich we’re going with?
You get ethically and sustainably raised organic chicken. Make whatever sandwich you want with that.
The people who voted for tariff taxes don’t know how to read. They just now what ® looks like next to people’s names on the ballot.
Tariffs are a tax on your groceries bill paid by the Government of Canada
reading comprehension is so bad here, that’s literally how half the people read it
Bro what is with out fucking government and spending our tax dollars on fucking advertisment campaigns
God damn just do something useful with our money instead of wasting it trying to manipulate peoples opinions!
Peoples opinions are dogshit and stupid ad campaigns wont change that
Two things:
- It’s cheaper to manipulate opinions than do the right thing. It’s a tale as old as time and part of the reason why capitalist “innovation” is almost entirely focused on overhyped PR bullshit instead of actually making a good product. Carney’s a hardcore capitalist, expecting otherwise is a fool’s errand.
- Governments should tell their citizens what they’re doing. A lot of people don’t see things in the news but still need to know. Yes it can be misused, but that doesn’t make it inherently bad.
I swear, I hear it in my sleep: paidforbythegovernmentofontario ding-dingding-ding
If MAGA could read, they’d be very upset about that billboard.
No they wouldn’t.
“Hell yeah. Get Canada to pay that shit!”
Look one comment above at this kinship guy from some sdf lemmy. He’s literally that?
Its not necessarily that they cant, more that they dont want to.
GOP is a tax on your health & your wealth!
I am somewhat shocked our government would do something like that, even last year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/billboard-tariffs-canada-1.7496882
Thanks for sharing this article. The ending of it aged really interestingly with the part about Venezuela
This hurts my brain. I know it is playing a joke on american rational on Trumps tarrifs but can someone ELI5 the logic (or lack thereof) used to defend that view point?
do you mean the viewpoint of tarrifs are tax? they are. they are an import tax paid by the us importers to take possession of foreign goods.
Paid by the government? Still don’t get it taxes are paid by the consumer of goods in that case.
oh the advertisement was paid by the government. its an ad campaign against the tarrifs. I thought you meant the general message of the advertisement.
Every government advertisement contains that tag line, or similar - provincial advertisements say “Paid for by the government of <province”, campaign ads use the party name in the tag line. Most Canadians are used to seeing this, and won’t conflate the tagline as being part of the ad itself.
