Yes, yes, we need unions, etc etc. Let’s cut to the chase and get to the part where you agree with me and disagree with these corporate shills that advocate for employees paying to work somewhere.
Actually you’re wrong on both here. In most cases anyways
Hardly surprising when wages have risen nowhere near the rate at which cost of living and inflation have climbed in recent years.
For some the math just no longer works out to a sustainable living situation even while working 40-60 hour weeks, depending on their location. And that leads to desperation.
Sad inevitable result of how things have been going for quite some time.
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And yet somehow, some way, the rich keep getting richer. Are we at an inflection/ breaking point yet?
If not it’s certainly coming. Rich can either decide to even the playing field and survive (they won’t) or entice a revolution. I think we all know what’s coming really.
This post is from the first page, but I just had to quote it.
What, exactly, is coming? Who are "the rich"? Do you really see a North American revolution happening?
This is a Calgary forum, an affluent city in one of the most affluent nations on the planet. The middle class live a very comfortable life. A quick google tells me there are about 2000 homeless people in the city - will they lead the revolution?
Your post seems to more closely resemble dystopian fiction than real life.
This post is from the first page, but I just had to quote it.
What, exactly, is coming? Who are "the rich"? Do you really see a North American revolution happening?
This is a Calgary forum, an affluent city in one of the most affluent nations on the planet. The middle class live a very comfortable life. A quick google tells me there are about 2000 homeless people in the city - will they lead the revolution?
Your post seems to more closely resemble dystopian fiction than real life.
Calgary is a bit of a rarity, where you have people earning decent salaries and real estate is reasonably affordable. If you look at most of the other cities in Canada, salaries are either very low and/or the real estate is unaffordable. The same goes for many cities in the USA, places like California being the worst off.
You can say...don't live in San Francisco or Vancouver then. The problem is even the secondary cities like Seattle, Portland, and Kelowna are out of site. And no, a solution is not for everyone to move to Calgary either. We've already seen significant spikes in home prices in Calgary, despite significant decreases in affordability.
As for the "rich", it's really becoming an issue of social mobility. Where people whose parents invested in the real estate markets decades ago now are, for the most part, the only ones able to afford to buy in now.
There are a lot of factors at play, inflation, interest rates, immigration, zoning, population structure, etc... and no I don't know an easy answer, but the middle class is getting degraded quickly. You are correct, there are enough people who are in a satisfiable economic position that we won't see some kind of major social revolution. But how far can you push that?
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America sucks so much. I honestly fear Canada devolving in the same manner.
We've always seemed to be a bit arrogant in feeling that we're somehow immune to the tribalism, racism and general chaos we see happening down there but I think have been proven wrong over the last 10 years with more and more feeling comfortable saying the quiet parts out loud, storming our own capital with their freedom convoys, etc. I can't even imagine seeing that level of looting in our shopping centers, but...
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LOL. It’s so sad when people are forced into theft to meet even their basic of needs like liquor and lululemon.
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We've always seemed to be a bit arrogant in feeling that we're somehow immune to the tribalism, racism and general chaos we see happening down there but I think have been proven wrong over the last 10 years with more and more feeling comfortable saying the quiet parts out loud, storming our own capital with their freedom convoys, etc. I can't even imagine seeing that level of looting in our shopping centers, but...
Its not an immunity, we're just behind the curve.
Ultimately I think a root cause behind a lot of this is the yawning chasm of Income Inequality and COVID just poured gas on it.
Canada doesnt have that issue yet, nor to the same degree, but it is coming.
We're not immune to it, we're just not there yet.
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