Who are all of these people that can afford a near-permanent shutdown.
I had a spat with someone on youtube about this. Their reply was "muh basic income." Yes lets just print a shit load of money and devalue the shit out of our Canadian Dollar over a virus that barely hospitalizes many people anymore. It's a fucking miracle that the Canadian Dollar recovered all of its losses vs the US Dollar in the last 6 months. Because the Federal Reserve also printed a shit load of money. But if you bought Gold in February instead of holding those Canadian Dollars, you'd be way richer right now. The Swedish Krona rose in value relative to the Dollars and Euro precisely because Sweden didn't kneecap their economy.
While I have been in favor of a basic income for the past 5 years to replace means-tested welfare, I think it's a fucking terrible idea to make it illegal for a large portion of our population to fucking work on top of having a basic income. lol.
Lockdown skepticism doesn't have to be about sucking corporate cock and I hate how this is the narrative that is pushed by liberals. There are so many other problems caused by the lockdown. And you have to feel for the small business people that invested their life savings into their business and then their life's work went up in smoke within a span of <5 months because of the lockdown. You have to feel for the people who hate living on $2,000/month before taxes and had to downscale their lifestyle significantly because it was illegal for them to continue working their job during the pandemic. And now that things re-opened, many businesses became bankrupt anyways and so many people are not being re-hired and have lost their jobs permanently. Small business owners are regular ordinary people like you and me. But OGFT is all like "fuck the petit-bourgeoisie, fuck their life savings, fuck those assholes."
I had a spat with someone on youtube about this. Their reply was "muh basic income." Yes lets just print a shit load of money and devalue the shit out of our Canadian Dollar over a virus that barely hospitalizes many people anymore. It's a fucking miracle that the Canadian Dollar recovered all of its losses vs the US Dollar in the last 6 months. Because the Federal Reserve also printed a shit load of money. But if you bought Gold in February instead of holding those Canadian Dollars, you'd be way richer right now. The Swedish Krona rose in value relative to the Dollars and Euro precisely because Sweden didn't kneecap their economy.
While I have been in favor of a basic income for the past 5 years to replace means-tested welfare, I think it's a fucking terrible idea to make it illegal for a large portion of our population to fucking work on top of having a basic income. lol.
Lockdown skepticism doesn't have to be about sucking corporate cock and I hate how this is the narrative that is pushed by liberals. There are so many other problems caused by the lockdown. And you have to feel for the small business people that invested their life savings into their business and then their life's work went up in smoke within a span of <5 months because of the lockdown. You have to feel for the people who hate living on $2,000/month before taxes and had to downscale their lifestyle significantly because it was illegal for them to continue working their job during the pandemic. And now that things re-opened, many businesses became bankrupt anyways and so many people are not being re-hired and have lost their jobs permanently. Small business owners are regular ordinary people like you and me. But OGFT is all like "fuck the petit-bourgeoisie, fuck their life savings, fuck those assholes."