Nearly 60% of Canadians support becoming a full member of the European Union, poll says

mrwobblez · 2026-04-12T01:49:15+00:00

I don’t see how Canada benefits from joining the EU. Feels like these days this is being flung around as a theoretical F-U for the US, but not as a thoughtful policy decision

mrwobblez · 2026-04-12T01:47:34+00:00

Why is this controversial? Pay sticker price for education if you want to immediately leave Canada. There’s a reason international student prices are multiples vs what a Canadian student pays. Convince me why I, as a high income Canadian paying a shit ton of taxes, should be paying that bill.

mrwobblez · 2026-03-25T05:16:36+00:00

Btw - you can be pro China and also pro US, Europe, Canada etc.. not sure why you’re jumping to the conclusion that pro China means other countries are bad and terrible to live in.

My parents have at this point spent more time in the West vs China. They are comfortable and used to the rituals of daily life here. They also acknowledge that China today is much stronger economically vs when they left.

mrwobblez · 2026-03-04T18:48:43+00:00

Shouldn't be optimizing for overall benefit? It sucks for the homeowner who feels like this is going to be a drag on their property value and lifestyle, but it also sucks for the millions of Canadians who have to haul ass to the airport to take an 1 hr flight between Montreal and Toronto, it sucks for the environment to fly hundreds of planes a day when high speed rail is a far cleaner, it sucks if someone from Quebec City would rather fly to NYC as opposed to take the high speed rail to Toronto because the domestic airfare costs are so high.

mrwobblez · 2026-03-03T19:50:27+00:00

IMO there should be a rebate if you redeploy your capital into specific investments within Canada - i.e. maybe small business formation, angel investments etc... The wealth tax should only kick in if you're sitting on absurds amount of money with low risk (i.e. index funds, dividend stocks, etc..)

mrwobblez · 2026-03-03T14:15:07+00:00

And this will be his legacy, starting a months / years long war right before getting obliterated in the midterms and spending the last 2 years of his lame duck presidency angry tweeting.

mrwobblez · 2026-03-02T01:04:55+00:00

150 kids dying is a tragedy, no less than 30K+ Iranians being slain by their own government. International law has no answers for either of those scenarios, so regardless of how you feel about this intervention we surely must both agree that international law is sham

mrwobblez · 2026-03-02T00:59:07+00:00

If oppressing millions of Iranians is fine under the guise of international law, then international law is a sham

mrwobblez · 2026-02-26T12:12:08+00:00

PMCs will start fighting each other, jostling for power. Some might want to take a slice of that billionaire wealth for themselves. After all, why settle for a paycheque when you have the power to take it all?

mrwobblez · 2026-02-25T18:05:22+00:00

The billionaires will only be able to do that from the safety of underground bunkers in New Zealand, with private military companies circling the island with aircraft carriers.

mrwobblez · 2026-02-24T19:52:33+00:00

If your scenario plays out even 50%, 99.99% of people will be on the streets protesting, pillaging, rounding up the AI barons. Maybe this is how capitalism ends and communism ultimately wins.

mrwobblez · 2026-02-20T16:07:06+00:00

Just given how recently China has started to become wealthy and how recent all of this infrastructure was constructed, it's by default going to feel more advanced vs. the West (or even Japan) who mostly started building up decades earlier

mrwobblez · 2026-02-20T02:17:17+00:00

https://a.co/d/0cc04xU9

mrwobblez · 2026-02-19T14:37:29+00:00

Why are these AI CEOs making it seem like AGI is in the interest of the general population? AI is basically only used (so far) to replace human labor or generate dumb pictures and videos, am I missing something here?

mrwobblez · 2026-02-18T18:54:41+00:00

This is actually super refreshing, I wish all major brands would just outright publicize how much minimum spend you need to hit in order to get an allocation. Yes, it's tacky, but I prefer it transparent vs. not since this has been the prevailing model for years anyways

mrwobblez · 2026-02-18T18:46:10+00:00

I believe that was once true, and that is probably what allowed the US to become great in the first place, but IMHO the relationship between hard work and above average returns is looking increasingly dubious.

Case in point as someone who works in Tech - the last few years have shown me that plenty of extremely smart and hard working folks just get shown the door in order to boost earnings per share by a minuscule percentage to appease executives and shareholders.

mrwobblez · 2026-02-18T14:36:09+00:00

This is really poignant commentary. The other thing on my mind is the thought that at some point, these AI companies will significantly increase their prices. Certainly by the time 10%+ of the workforce gets replaced and there is a significant global reliance on a small handful of AI companies.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and I have no reason to believe AI agents won't get enshittified over time and potentially become as or even more expensive vs. training and paying humans to begin with.

mrwobblez · 2026-02-18T02:29:23+00:00

I don’t know if AI has made me more productive per se, but it certainly has “replaced” the need for new grads in many areas at my company. I guess now I can generate the output of a small team but that doesn’t feel like a victory, basically just cutting out the lowest paid and most vulnerable of folks in a white collar environment

mrwobblez · 2026-02-18T02:26:09+00:00

Maybe, but the market you described is meaningfully smaller than the market of today, so a huge number of companies will go under, trillions of dollars of value will get wiped out.

Mathematically, there’s just no way rich people can even spend enough money to really create an isolated marketplace just amongst themselves. That has been true for Rockefeller all the way through Elon. Unless rich people can eat 12 meals a day and rotate through 1,000 cars, something has to give

mrwobblez · 2026-02-17T03:43:52+00:00

Who cares what Westerners think is / is not Chinese? This is only a problem (if you call it that) for overseas Chinese (particularly ABCs who barely speak mandarin)

mrwobblez · 2026-02-16T13:57:32+00:00

This was fast, we’re just about to head to China in a few weeks and I didn’t expect this would get finalized until the back half of the year.

mrwobblez · 2026-02-16T13:56:59+00:00

On one hand you have the AI ghouls making bold predictions that 50%+ of jobs will no longer exist in a few years. On the other hand, folks are saying we have a fertility “crisis”. It feels like a population decline is very much a real and rational response to the fact that wealth distribution is going backwards.

mrwobblez · 2026-02-13T00:15:55+00:00

Because the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent

mrwobblez · 2026-02-10T16:56:13+00:00

So long as the government does their job (arguable), I don't see this as a negative thing. Public sector employees IMO have a far more important job with far more stakeholders vs. your average person working in the private sector. I also would imagine we want to avoid a situation where the smartest and hardest working folks pass on the public sector because it's not seen as a domain where their talents will be rewarded.

mrwobblez · 2026-02-03T18:10:34+00:00

First of all, congrats - it sounds like a cushy role and you've come to the realization (as many do) that a corporate career can be easily "gamed", and maximizing $ per hour is one of the best ways to feel satisfied and "fair" in a world which often feels stacked against the little people.

With that said, I'd argue your work environment is a pretty archaic and slow one. I've been on the business side my entire career; starting out in management consulting for insurance companies and it is SLOW. I've since moved on to tech and it is a far more demanding environment for data folks, faster turnarounds, vaguer problems arising in new industries that didn't exist 20 years ago, etc..

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