[-] Smk@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

I think zoning laws, parking requirement and crazy urbanism rules are a form of protectionism that drive home prices up.

It's crazy that the land you buy is so restricted that the only thing you can do is... nothing asides from trying to win the lawn contest with your neighbors.

In my opinion, those are the factors that led to this catastrophe. Houses are literally frozen. You cannot start a business, you cannot build another house on your land, nothing.

The government can build more affordable housing, sure, but ultimately, we need to let the city build itself without overly restrictive zoning and urbanism by-laws.

[-] Smk@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago

Sorry but that is idiotic.

Late stage capitalism is much more hidden and affects part of the society you wouldn't consider.

An example of late stage capitalism is how we don't have time to make families anymore. It is much cheaper to bring in immigration than to allow men and women to fuck around and raise children instead of working.

Late stage capitalism will fuck with how you, as an individual, can start your own business. Look at how subburbs are made and regulated. You can't start a small business in here. You gotta go to the designated area which is owned by big box company. The only place is downtown which is now so fucking expensive, you can't even get in. He'll, you are not even allowed to build a small coffee shop for your neighbors for Christ's sake.

International economy is another factor. Look, we had a lot of industry workers in textile, electronics and other industries. Where are they now ? In China, India and other countries because we don't have to care about these people work place condition. Do you even know how much a t-shirt should cost normally? It's not supposed to be 4.99$.

This conservative vs liberal is a distraction. Liberals and Conservatives are actively pushing late stage capitalism. It's a joke. You think Pierre is gonna stop immigration? lol, that's what late stage capitalism wants. Immigrants that are easy to fuck with because they need a job to stay in this country. It's horrible.

Pierre or Justin aren't gonna do any of this social shit. They both want to get those juicy economics number up because that's a good argument to get re-elected.

[-] Smk@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 months ago

This is great. The pay sucks though. The reason why is that the economy does not care about the children. We got immigration. Why the fuck would the economy lose money on kindergarten ? Or on family in general ? It's a trend that keeps going on. Less and less children. Our places are less and less for families.

[-] Smk@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago

The problem are not landlord... At least, not traditional one. It's because we treat a basic need as an investment. A home should not be an investment. It should be something like a car, it should depreciate with time.

Another thing is NIMBY. Preventing new construction project to protect your investment is another cause of this shitshow.

Another thing is urbanism rule. Homeowner should be allowed to build something on their land instead of playing the lawn competition every year.

Solve these and the landlord thing is gone. The landlord outrage is a distraction from the real plague. It's just a symptom. Of course a landlord will raise the price if it can, that's how a market works. Landlord can raise the price because we don't construct enough. That is the real outrage and that's what we should focus on. Not this shitty ragebait dividing piece of false problem.

Renting is useful for so many reason. Not everyone wants to take care of a house or can afford one.

[-] Smk@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

JUST ONE MORE LAME,I SWEAR TO GOD, JUST ONE MORE LANE AND WE'RE DONE. ONE MOAR LANE. MOAAAAR

[-] Smk@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

Maybe it's time to regulate the fuck out of the internet.

[-] Smk@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

This is fucking dumb. Even in the very ancient of ancient of time, people were working to survive. They had to go out, and farm the fucking berries out of the bush and hunt deers and what not. If you couldn't do that, I don't think you could be a part of the society. And then, another fucking tribes comes in and try to fuck you up.

What a fucking stupid statement to say. Nothing is free. Even if you remove everyone and everything, you still have to work to survive. And what a good way to survive than to be in a society that separates this burden. Some people farm, some people defends, some people heals and some people educate. Woooow, such a free tribe, they have to work to survive.

[-] Smk@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

The environment around men favors them to be stronger than women. If there were no women's category, there would only be men playing chess and very very few women and that would sucks.

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submitted 1 year ago by Smk@lemmy.ca to c/quebec@lemmy.ca

J'viens de voir le show de chose sauvage au pot a sable pis c'était le meilleur show que j'ai vu depuis longtemps.

Genre, jconnais pas c'te band la, j'en au jamais écouté pis jconnais aucune tune. Mais maudit que le show était bon.

Yeah 👍

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submitted 1 year ago by Smk@lemmy.ca to c/quebec@lemmy.ca

On banni les sacs de plastique mais on continue d'accepter que les aliments soient emballer dans des affaires que tu sacres au vidange rendu chez vous.

[-] Smk@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

Is this sarcasm ? I wonder what's your thought process ?

[-] Smk@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 year ago

Also, we don't necessarily need a big userbase. Just a good active one. More is not necessarily better in my opinion.

Smaller is also much more manageable.

[-] Smk@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago

If it's that bad, then let's make a law that fixes the problem.

You can take this and just welp, plastic spoon is cheaper and all my concurrent are doing it so fuck it.

We want a greener industry? Make the fucking law reflect that otherwise, fuck off.

[-] Smk@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

Is this even true ? Is there anyone blaming Canada for this ?

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submitted 1 year ago by Smk@lemmy.ca to c/quebec@lemmy.ca

Pensez-vous que le gov devrait se faire un instance Lemmy pour faire leurs annonces au lieu d'utiliser Facebook/twitter/reddit ?

Je pense aussi a Hydro-Quebec et Radio-Can. Il me semble que ce serait pas mal plus "people for the people".

Je trouve ça plutôt semi que les instances gouvernementales encourage le monde a utilisé des plateformes propriétaires..

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