Data shows lockdowns to be one of humanity's biggest failures
(thepostmillennial.com)
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In the recent years maybe? I consider the biggest failure to be giving voting rights to non-property owners.
Please explain the connection between choosing a government to represent you and owning property.
People with no property have no skin in the game. Sure, there are lots of people who do not own property who vote sensibly and are informed, but once you've got got something important to lose, you're not likely to vote for spend thrift morons like Trudeau because it will affect your income, your mortgage, your interest rates, and economic stability.
I gotta disagree, and not only because I’m a renter, but because I have plenty of skin in the game.
First, I work and pay taxes and am subject to all the bullshit politicians do. Second, I served with the CAF for several years when I was young and fuck anyone who says I don’t have skin in the game because I refuse to take on a ridiculous mortgage on an overvalued home. Third, I run my own small business and hold investments.
Owning property doesn’t make anyone more enlightened. In fact, I say I have more skin in the game than most homeowners. I refuse to buy into this property market.
Your line of reasoning is idiotic.
*added: by your logic, a bunch of fake refugees given a house by the feds have more voting rights than me. Wow.
Are you triggered? This isn't reddit, don't bitch at me, make your points like a man.
Fake refugees are not given a house, they're given substantial rental supplements and welfare. I am not troubling to verify this, you made the claim so you can back it up.
We're not saying that starting tomorrow nobody who doesn't own a home cannot vote in Canada. The electorate is fundamentally unserious. We vote for bullshit. If you're living somewhere with a ridiculous housing market, I don't blame you for not buying in, that's why I moved.
When the electoral system was built, voting rights weren't given out like candy, there were conditions that restricted ones ability to vote. You had to have substantial investment in your community, and in your nation.
It was also a time where the economy and our currency wasn't manipulated to all hell, and most people in their mid twenties owned homes and businesses. Those conditions have been eradicated after several progressive campaigns to broaden voting rights. Unfortunately the economic and market realities have changed significantly too.
I read that book recently and it made sense in theory, knowing the government they would fuck it up for sure. Something given has no value, like the CERB checks or the Covid recovery benefit in BC. Though I am sure some people used it to buy groceries and pay rent etc, but there are more than enough people just on Reddit alone bragging about spending it all on weed and beer. Too many opportunistic leeches who cry systemic racism and oppression while bleeding the system dry any chance they get.
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The other half of the equation is that model would prevent all the busy bodies and zealous partisan people from having too much input as they would have to actually put in the time to have their voice heard. All the bleeding hearts would have to actually put in some elbow grease, and that would scare off the loonies and half assed ideas. I don't think many of these people would be calling for half the things they do if they had to get out of bed and work for it.
That's mostly boomers, people who bought their way into the country, and the recipients of handouts. It was women who voted Trudeau into office.