I think the bizarre thing is that unions are negotiating 3% wage increases and it's like.... that's below inflation.

High cost of living, unsustainable gas prices, runaway climate change, housing crisis, stagnant wages.

I'm sure the right wingers will be the perfect solution to these problems.

They are among the best at it, you have to admit

I feel this is highly inaccurate because it would imply these faults are on the slave and not on the system. It's not about the job, it's about the slavery itself.

I found through personal experience that the prestigiousness of the job is highly irrelevant; it's the working that sucks. It's the mandatory devotion to literally anything that sucks one's soul from one's body. And yes, that does become repetitive, and leads to some of the symptoms described above.

But much of the above list are based on factors that are forced upon all of us:

• Working, for no explicable reason in a modern society where we are grotesquely wealthy and have a surfeit of everything
• Commuting, a pointless and punishing exercise, often in transportation systems that are lazily thought of and constructed, mostly for cars and not human beings
• Exhaustion, mental and physical, from the toil of slavery, preventing the inspiration of new activities and hobbies
• Having to fake one's personality at work in order to conform to a social order so that one can participate in a capitalistic society one doesn't even want any part of
• Uses substances to cope with trauma, such as coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs
• Is too tired on the weekends, using them to recover from the cycle of work
• Mental illness from trauma, unresolved because of a lack of health care funding for mental health, leads him to consider extreme options

It's about the system, not the slaves.

Sorry, you misunderstand slightly.

I don't mean investors in the sense of speculative parasitic humans who are devaluing life by overvaluing housing.

I mean, people like me who have worked from the age of 15-49 and now own a very modest sized apartment that is grotesquely overpriced and has quite literally enslaved me to mortgage payments for years to come.

If we devalue my apartment, why did I spend decades of sweat and toil to purchase it? Then it feels like I was playing the stock market.

And this isn't the same argument as the "why should people get free school when I had to pay student loans" since one doesn't affect the other. In this situation, if the value of homes come down too significantly, it's literally devaluing my work.

I didn't create the horrible dystopian system we live in but I do unfortunately have to abide by its rules. And now that I have a tiny piece (on paper but owned by the bank) I am hoping (like most Canadians) to take that piece and cash out to retire on in 10-15 years time.

What I'd really like to see is some kind of national housing strategy that guaranteed people basic housing regardless of their income (even if it's "zero"). That housing wouldn't impact the market but it could slow down the unhealthy growth of the valuation of housing.

If we could totally slow housing valuation growth to the normal 2% inflation, while also creating affordable housing for lower income/no income earners, then the system could adjust and that could be a true win win.

Homes will never again be affordable because the system is completely broken (and not broken in the Millhouse expression, but rather in a normal definition). We made housing a commodity rather than a necessity of life and it ended with predictable results.

Now we have the unpleasant decision of diluting the investment of millions of Canadians or continuing to allow millions of Canadians to never own a home.

If Canada elects this career grifter and fake family man poseur, I am genuinely done with this country. I don't think I can take another rightwing government at a time in history when we desperately need a party for the working class.

The last thing this country needs is yet another white male cishet christian fiscal con telling us what the fuck we need. "Everything is broken." Yeah, because your donors own all our hard work, you muppet.

I will genuinely move to Europe or something.

Sometimes the cashiers themselves are slow and scan items like they're regretting every life decision they ever made.

What I love about selfcheckout is I go at my pace, as fast or slow as I want to be.

I find cashier lines to be too slow because of the socialization so I always go to the self checkouts.

A lot of old ladies will go to cashiers and have ridiculous questions and requests and you're standing there with your 3 items dying inside.

What a joke, eh. Spinning it as helping Canadians. Where was the Canadian Competition Bureau when they allowed 3 companies to own the entire cellular network in a country second only in size to Russia?

CRTC is helping nothing.

Canadians are, more than ever before, influenced by American media and social media and that includes the dogmatic and polarizing rightwing anti-science narratives rooted in conspiracy theories and anti-intellectualism. We're being absorbed into the American weltanschauung since the advent of the Internet and our culture diluted. You can see it in our politics.

COVID-19 is now endemic, like influenza. However, we do have vaccines so every 6-12 months when we get a booster shot we can get a bivalent vaccine that contains some of the latest variant to help prevent serious illness. This allows us to recover much more easily, reduce transmission, and ultimately eliminate the clogging of hospitals.

The real danger is from people who refuse to vaccinate because they're going to be more susceptible to the endemic virus and its subvariants.