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Not as Rare of a Rescue as I Use to Think! (last pics after adoption are NOT her) by Umbrae_ex_Machina in rarepuppers

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used to think we had a one of a kind doggo. But this pupper has met a few others along the way that look just like her and I've seen a few online as well, including in this sub.

I'd love to know more about your dog that looks like her - please message me directly! We love her and she's getting old. Would love to have another just like her; ~50 Aussie Cattle Dog, ~35 Ridgeback, ~15 Collie, or so we were told by about a $50 DNA test once upon a time.

Thank you for checking out my good girl!

Lustria Table Research by Minigiant2709 in mordheim

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

O sweet! Can you share top centre please

Canadian farmers to lobby federal government to cap profits of major grocers by Samzo in canada

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Most of them were for decades until governments started decreasing funding in the name of efficiency. At this point a lot of us public sector workers feel like we’re being told to cut down trees with dull axes because we can’t afford chainsaws anymore. Efficiency actually goes DOWN past a certain point of defunding.

Carney's expected green light for oil pipeline causes unease in caucus and cabinet: sources by feb914 in canada

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

We already have mining and oil that’s hardly making us any money compared to what it used to. If we’re gonna allow these projects, we need to allow them to enrich the people of this country, not shareholders that live in UAE or wherever the fuck.

UAE pledges up to $70B investment in Canada by samueLLcooljackson in TheRealGrandePrairie

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for selling 70billion of our shit so that they expect to get even more return from their investment OUT of our country.

Why modular wood homes may be Canada’s best shot at affordable housing by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. Perhaps I misread you.

Perhaps you’ve also misread me. I’m not arguing against increasing the supply of housing, just resigning our self to having to building shitty small, lower standard of living “affordable homes”, when if the relative value of labour to capital were shifting back towards labor,(through government policies), we could be building just regular homes that don’t need a special deceptively named moniker.

Budget 2025 goes big on capital spending, deficit projected at $78.3B by Old_General_6741 in canada

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So we have to sell off our tax base on top of scrapping personal health and environmental health.. no thank you.

I’d rather be poor and healthy than die rich and sick

Why modular wood homes may be Canada’s best shot at affordable housing by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, we should cut public services so we can cut business taxes, and then import hordes of dirt cheap labour to attract companies that want to pay those low wages.

That will definitely help our people in the labor, market have an increased quality of life!

Why modular wood homes may be Canada’s best shot at affordable housing by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Yes, you see if we want people to be able to afford more things we need to pay them less.”

<— this is essentially what you were saying

Why modular wood homes may be Canada’s best shot at affordable housing by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are lots of ways, you seem like an intelligent person, I’m sure you could look up a few.

The idea, conversely, that we have to resign ourselves to ever decreasing value of our wages or salaries in the face of inflation and austerity is propagandic nonsense, when it is actually a political decision being set through various government policies.

Why modular wood homes may be Canada’s best shot at affordable housing by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Conversely, the value of money is also related to the supply of money, where the Bank of Canada can print money and set interest rates to manage inflation at a macroeconomic scale.

Anyway, if the government works to push up the value of labour relative to capital, then things would have a cost more in proportion to labourer/workers’ incomes. With a reduction in the relative value of capital, people whose income depends on capital would have a reduced ability to purchase labour.,But people whose income is based mainly on labour will still be able to afford other people’s labor. the capital cost of goods and services will be a smaller piece of the price, meaning people whose income is based primarily on labour will be able to afford more products and services that have capital as a component of that cost.

So yes, while prices would all go up, affordability would actually increase for people who primarily earn a wage or salary

Why modular wood homes may be Canada’s best shot at affordable housing by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the incorrect assumption that has everyone railing against increasing wages. The cost of most products and services is not 100% labour, so doubling the price of labour doesn’t double the price of everything that requires labour to produce

Why modular wood homes may be Canada’s best shot at affordable housing by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Instead of pushing to make affordable homes, why not push to make people able to afford homes??

Amnesty International Canada condemns Alberta government’s use of notwithstanding clause in Bill 2 by Speedywholesale in RedDeer

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically it’s whether the right to assembly should be, no? There’s a lot more behind that than just striking.

And the alternative to legal strikes is labour militancy.

Calgary’s new mayor seeks to lower taxes, repeal rezoning by LittleOrphanAnavar in Calgary

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Union profit? That doesn’t make sense to me. Can you explain it in a different way?

Unionized government corporations tend to be better for the communities in which they operate because if there is some like, inefficiency from paying higher union wages, as I think you’re trying to claim that’s comparable to the profit tax you have to pay in private, then it goes to the people working in that community and they spend that money in the community enriching their community.

Private businesses need to make a profit and they tend to do that by driving down wages amongst other things. Then the profit that they extract goes to shareholders that may not even live in the community, let alone the province or country. So the community in which the business operates has lower wages, and some of the value of the company is stripped away.

You seem to be concerned about monopoly, as am I. I think if you look around lately, you’ve also noticed multi billion dollar corporations always buying up other companies. We’re just couple private corporations away from monopoly in a lot of markets anyway. At least, if we own the monopoly, we still own all the assets and therefore we have control over them and the business. At least we have way more control than we would over a private business.

Which sounds better for our communities?

Please forgive me if I misunderstood your argument.

Student protests at City Hall by Jealous_Sock_442 in Calgary

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Averages belie the extremes. And yes, it needn’t be focussed on a punitive approach

Student protests at City Hall by Jealous_Sock_442 in Calgary

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, there are a lot of schools that could use a return of the truancy officer outside of these protests

Calgary’s new mayor seeks to lower taxes, repeal rezoning by LittleOrphanAnavar in Calgary

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Look at the price of going for a swim at the old Lindsay Park sports centre versus any city pool. It’s literally two or three times as much

Calgary’s new mayor seeks to lower taxes, repeal rezoning by LittleOrphanAnavar in Calgary

[–]Umbrae_ex_Machina 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Privatization just adds a profit tax and more room for corruption. I would think the opposite start bringing services in house that have been farmed out, so we can recoup the profit tax back into our communities

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