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Like I said, anyone who is not putting citizens first on this is part of the bad cop good cop routine. I don’t care about peepee or any alt right goons and their own ulterior motives.
> However the limiting agent in this environment is governments willingness to zone and permit new housing construction.
Yep. So they cause the problem in order to be the ones who conveniently have the solution. One that has the added benefit of keeping them more and more central and overreaching over your lives.
It’s a shell game. A less informed population won’t notice that the political dynasties continue to live luxurious pompous lives off everyone’s backs, and the informed will be too busy in an unfair competition over scraps. Unless there is a huge surplus of housing, college space, and well paying jobs…your leadership is selling you out in a gambit to take in people who will gladly keep voting for them in return for 10% of the typical Canadian lifestyle. You need new leaders who put citizens first, not last.
How come you construe more housing as being a government responsibility? That is strange, especially when your government is causing these issues in the first place. Housing supply normally gets built to satisfy demand. If the regulations are too stifling for construction to be profitable for builders and workers, you won’t have houses. Period. Magic funny money only works for so long before the house of cards comes crashing down.
Interesting that some in Canada respond to the problem by expecting the government to do something all the time. They serve the poison and you want their antidote too? Canada’s leaders are doing a pretty great job of setting the stage for a housing takeover so they can conveniently come up with a solution that makes them more central and more powerful.
Do they overly regulate construction and make it hard to do business?
It is the bad cop good cop routine. If someone is not for the citizens first, they are part of the system of self-serving political dynasties living large off of everyone else’s work.
You are the one making things about race. Like in the other comment where you were the first person who brought up race. Demanding that citizens be considered first is not racism. It is interesting noticing the pattern of the con artist playbook here. First call the opposition racist or mention that they hate brown people, then associate a citizen-first mindset with some distasteful or evil political party, then suppress and silence dissent by leveraging the fear of guilt by association in the press and in social circles…very boring and predictable now. My policy is simple. Unless there is a huge surplus of housing inventory, education, and great jobs first for Canada’s own children…then it makes no sense to give everything to so many newcomers first. Unless you hate Canadian citizens?
Is there a surplus of well paying jobs? Say…are there 5 million well paying jobs that are unfilled? Is there a surplus inventory of properties approaching 5 million extra homes? Is college enrollment experiencing 50% vacancies across the board?
No? Then why are you the first one mentioning brown people? Are you really that desperate to feel good about virtue signaling on a hacker news thread? Putting citizens first has nothing to do with disliking someone of another race, culture, or skin color. It is basic common sense.
Somehow limp wrist weasels have successfully conned an entire generation into thinking that self preservation and caring about citizens is the same as being a nazi.
Canada needs better leadership. People need to stop being afraid of speaking the truth in Canada.
I know a lot about economics. What Canada is doing is not sustainable. Your leaders are cutting your children’s legs out from beneath them. What you described only works when there’s a very stable base for the citizens to rest on. If you are bringing in such a huge number of people and there isn’t already a huge surplus of educational materials and housing and work opportunities, you are just reshaping your country through unfair competition so that your political dynasties can keep skimming off the top while you wither away. They get away with it by bringing in people who don’t know better and who will be happy with 10% of the typical Canadian lifestyle, while the ones who know better get forced into a rigged contest for fewer and fewer scraps.
Is there a surplus of well paying jobs? Say…are there 5 million well paying jobs that are unfilled? Is there a surplus inventory of properties approaching 5 million extra homes? Is college enrollment experiencing 50% vacancies across the board?
No? Then it is just a shell game so your bad leaders can continue to skim from the top for their luxurious and pompous lifestyles.
That’s a lot of people. Where are all those people going to be housed? Where will the resources for their education and gainful employment come from? Is the Canadian job market exploding with a huge amount of well paying jobs such that Canada’s children have multiple options to pick from, or will everyone be competing for scraps?
Labor shortage is such a lie. when they say that they just mean there aren’t enough low-information workers who will work for meager wages in a high taxation environment in a race to the bottom while some political dynasties always skim from the top. I hope you can all muster up the strength to vote in better leaders who put the citizens first.
Sounds like your country is under siege by political activists who somehow stole the narrative and now go uncontested when someone says something reasonable.
Why restrict people’s freedom to purchase rather than the massive displacement being caused? There’s another comment on this news saying that your government brings in over a million people per year in a country with a population of forty million. That’s pretty steep and rapid displacement…
Sounds like your government should stop sabotaging its own citizens’ future with that amount of displacement. Not sustainable.
A culture around frequent calls is toxic. It reeks of insecurity from some people who are afraid of paper trails.
> but some sort of frequent in-person meetups will be hugely valuable for high-ambiguity/collaboration/creative work
This is some vanilla scrum master bull shit, this isn’t how products or code get built.
We need to stop listening to those zealots and their false religion. They’re crabs in a bucket. That is why they want to get rid of advanced placement classes.
Brick & mortar bookstores about to make a huge comeback.
Time to cancel my subscription to Microsoft’s online products. Never buying another Windows machine again. Apple or Linux only from here in out. Apple’s software and/or LibreOffice are more than enough.
Gotta find a way to relate the article to tech, it's a tech forum!
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This is why stupidity like Scrum should be abolished in every software shop worldwide. It just wastes time. It is just busy work and busy meetings for nothing and it is one of the most time consuming aspects of a dev job.
Pipe down you surburb dweller! /s
they don’t care because they think they’ll be the ones wielding the power
People are upset that they can't profit off your labor without a license? Those don't sound like open source purists to me. They sound like straight up thieves lol.
Apple didn't want to replace the keyboard on an m1 macbook I have. It was only a couple years old at the time. The guy at the Genius Bar just said no.
> If your managers can't get with the program, fire them and get replacements with a remote work clue. You'll be glad you did.
Yes. No need for managers or scrum masters.
That's true but what's more simple? Implementing UBI or banning this practice? Right now the latter is more simple and feasible. The former takes more time and investigation into how to do it properly so it scales forever.
If having someone's likeness requires, by Federal law, consent in the form of a licensing agreement where the person receives compensation then that's more okay.
I would still prefer a full ban on this. Maybe it'd be okay if theater or non-CGI film end up becoming their own booming industries owing to people enjoying being together in a place and the limits of practical effects. With these deep-fake films and shows being labeled as "CGI" and letting the market decide.
Do you feel the same knowing that a company can steal your thought patterns, keystrokes, likeness in manner of speech and thought and appearance, and build an AI that codes about as good as you or will one day, without giving you a dime or needing you? Effectively cutting off your legs too since you won't even be able to monetize your own likeness anymore since they can just preempt you in that area too, via alterations to the likeness.
It's not just Hollywood extras who are victims here - it's everyone.