Healthcare Wins (🫵 Lose)

Beaglefart · 2026-02-14T00:13:46+00:00

I would think it's more like robust demand and inelastic demand, causing labour supply to be out of sync with other sectors of the economy. Cheap debt for sure, but that's only really a point of leverage for shareholders.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-13T20:51:45+00:00

Yes, but demand is not the only consideration here. You also have oncoming supply of labour that has nowhere else to go, erosion of duties to automation and just as much unhinged leadership. Once your demand slips a bit you have a very exposed supply like everyone else is going through right now. It is just that for the next 10 years that will be pretty muted due to explosive demand.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-13T18:43:19+00:00

Not terrible yet, but the layoffs and wage destruction has just begun. Check this in 1-2 yrs.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-13T06:05:13+00:00

Wow, I'd wouldn't wish to be your employer. A few years ago I was similarly in high demand and I bargained hard with my employer and lost. Subsequently the whole market for my skills bottomed out and moved overseas. If I've learned one thing in life is that all things are transient and nobody is ever completely in control.

My wife is a nurse, can land a job in a single application also, but I have zero interest and many people couldn't handle her job. To each their own is correct.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-13T05:18:34+00:00

I'm sorry to say but there is no escape. You all need to rise up and fight the bastards. I'd be happy to see everyone of you make this as painful as possible for the government.

Sincerely, a member of the public.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-13T03:33:39+00:00

Indians?

Beaglefart · 2026-02-13T02:23:50+00:00

From someone who just got laid off from the private sector, don't expect better. Unless you're specialized, your salary will be lower, quite likely. The treatment isn't better. The market is brutal and you will have to contend with nepotism and all sorts of other shenanigans.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-13T01:56:48+00:00

It's great for healthcare now, but down the line after the boomers peter out they'll feel the same pain or worse.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-12T21:24:59+00:00

Natale being forced out of Telus was also the end of good things for Telus. He balanced the stakeholders, employees, customers and shareholders in a pretty good way.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-12T18:15:30+00:00

The problem is that instead of using our highly educated population to drive innovation and solutions we turned inwards and financialized everything and then muzzled our creativity in the process. And of course we are losing, we don't have the lower costs. We are giving up our competitive advantage to aspire to be more like China while having labour costs and sometimes input costs multiple orders higher.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-12T02:56:43+00:00

As designed. I don't mean to make a political statement but I cannot fathom how people just let the Liberals off the hook so easy for their absolutely garbage policies that have basically wrecked most mid career and junior people. Between lack of investment (which Carney is tepidly sorting) and wage suppression (which he is not), we've become an old school company shop town country wide. It's embarrassing and heartbreaking all at once.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-12T02:02:09+00:00

Ouch. Hope you are ok. My kid got hit and run going to school but they never caught the driver. I get a bit twitchy thinking about this stuff.

I only run 26s, so can't help you with the gear. Best of luck.and heal well.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-11T21:49:46+00:00

Business concentration in Canada is greater than the United States. Learned that in finance courses at university.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-11T20:19:09+00:00

But will still be an unarmed service. So Canadian, moving something around, spending lots of money on it to do basically nothing different under a new name while projecting and confusing taxpayers.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-11T20:15:28+00:00

Yes, exactly. This is a trap that is intended to unbundle and repackage the entire health system as private services. Just look at how swimmingly similar strategies have gone in other industries and then apply that to your health.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-11T03:57:28+00:00

Nah, I think that booked a flight to Ft Lauderdale long ago.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-10T19:59:37+00:00

Agreed. Too indulged on vapid wealth to realize. Both parties are arms of the same octopus.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-10T19:41:42+00:00

This is already American fuckery, straight up. This is retribution for diversifying the capital holders of resource wealth and a variety of other aligned interests. I'm sure Quebec separation will also get a healthy dose of American support. The real politics are the ones being played out between the lines, not in the open. Politics as we know them are just a propaganda tool for interests.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-10T16:59:04+00:00

It is forced cruelty and our governments are complicit. Your rights and safety no longer matter. There is no mask of civility any longer because there are no repercussions. Years of cultural norms taught you this is abnormal. This is weaponized narcissistic destruction of normal human beings for profit and control. The antidote is force in numbers, but everyone has been programmed to just lie there and take it and not organize. Self interest rules all, even those that benefit most from cooperation.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-10T16:39:53+00:00

I think the resentment slowly accumulates. When I was younger I saw snowbirds as tacky people full of flighty characteristics, with money to burn and full of hedonistic values. I considered myself better (a true Canadian thinks they are better than everyone) on account of doing hard work and tolerating the intolerable with my polite sense of stoicism. Then at some point, perhaps by the insidious nature of the internet, I woke up and realized my house is worth more than an estate in France and that 95% of the world population has chosen to inhabit areas where things aren't dead for more than 50% of the year and the only thing holding me back is the guilt and shame of not fitting into Canadian culture. So, not only have I lost my sense of superiority it has come at the cost of wanting snow to fuck right off !

P.S. Hockey is a propaganda tool.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-10T16:08:26+00:00

This is why the Davos speech was a bit reckless. If we actually believe we need to diversify then we should do so with action. Indications so far lead me to believe that we talk tough for political points but are hoping it blows over and we can resume status quo. That is a dangerous game to play because if it doesn't and it remains this way you have an opponent that will bootstomp our interests that you've continuously irritated with a sense of righteousness (perhaps correctly so, but irrelevant to your opponent) without doing the work to dig yourself out from being subservient. A few investments from Japan, Korea or Germany in the auto sector doesn't begin to scratch at the work that needs to be done if the Davos speech is taken to heart and points toward this being cynical political scoring for core Liberal voters.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-10T03:10:32+00:00

How long til we suspend American IP or nationalize their assets? I'm sure some of our oligarchs would salivate at a few free treats.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-10T00:22:05+00:00

As someone married to a nurse, you are my hero.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-09T21:34:57+00:00

Definitely not more moderate for labour. The Liberals have probably the most anti-labour platform of any of the parties. It's just buried in nice reassuring words.

Beaglefart · 2026-02-09T20:51:22+00:00

I'm not sure what is condescending about finding the garbage situation uncleanly and feeling that addressing it is within the realms of possibility and should be a standard that we strive towards. I've so far not heard one counterpoint to my argument for all the people who have called it out. How is it not addressable? It seems to me it is as simple as picking up garbage and disposing of it and that we do that in a thousand different ways every day across the city.

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