Our nation is a plantation for like 30 people who own all of the duolopolies here, which themselves set all of the regulations here in Canada to make it too expensive or impossible to compete with these established rent seekers.
There’s no will to change from the capitalists that effectively own this country. Anything else is moot since they own both the means and the medium for debating whether change should happen and what it should look like.
5 banks
2 railroads
2 grocery store parent companies (80% goes to presidents choice. I still think it’s hilarious the word choice is in their name when that’s their business model… The illusion of choice)
4 meat Packers
2 food distributors (mostly Sysco)
General Mills, J&J, and maybe 4 other parent companies (all American) own and manufacture 80% of what’s in your supermarket or drugstore.
3 vehicle parent companies that own every brand imaginable.
3 guys own all of our main stream media, print, and radio.
I could go on and on…
Everything is merged and consolidated into these gigantic duolopolies. The same people own both of the companies, but it technically skirts our anti-trust laws because it’s two separate entities.
While I don’t dispute anything you’re saying what’s your proposal to change this that is grounded in geopolitical reality?
An NDP/Green majority will never happen in our lifetime. What do we do instead? We will never be a socialist state. How do we be more responsible capitalists?
“Show me your incentives and I’ll tell you the outcomes”
So I think the most likely course of action is it runs its course and it all collapses due to the rich 1%'s hubris. What incentive do the majority of the 1% have if they practically own nothing relative to the 1% of the 1%? That’s when you get elite civil war and infighting. Maybe they’ll realize on their own that this is headed towards disaster? Again, I think incentives make that almost impossible.
The alternative I would prefer to see is nationalization of natural monopolies like rail, telecom, power, natural gas .etc. they all operate as the definition of a natural monopoly (actually basically all of the duolopolies I listed are partial or complete natural monopolies)
Natural monopoly: where the cost of building a network is extremely capital intensive, requires dedicated Right Of Way (ROW) procurement or eminent domain, and where the marginal cost of adding more customers or running more freight is almost zero compared to building the network in the first place.
Natural monopolies shouldn’t be private enterprise since they by definition can’t be competed with. Are we going to build a second parallel power system? Is every house going to have 5 natural gas stubs for 5 competing natural gas pipeline networks?
All of those deserve to be nationalized. It’s the reason oil monopolies either get split up or they get nationalized. Oil is a different beast though where you can have companies competing at each step of exploration, extraction, transport, refinement, distribution, storage .etc (each is almost its own natural monopoly though in each category.)
Tax the rich. Start rebuilding the public wealth that has been sold off over the past 40 years. Reinvent capitalism along more sustainable lines where it’s possible, build alternatives to it where it isn’t. Or maybe just let things roll along the path of least resistance for a few more years and then watch it all crash and burn.
By saying that even a relatively modest goal such as an NDP government “will never happen” you’re casting a vote for the latter.
Our nation is a plantation for like 30 people who own all of the duolopolies here, which themselves set all of the regulations here in Canada to make it too expensive or impossible to compete with these established rent seekers.
There’s no will to change from the capitalists that effectively own this country. Anything else is moot since they own both the means and the medium for debating whether change should happen and what it should look like.
5 banks
2 railroads
2 grocery store parent companies (80% goes to presidents choice. I still think it’s hilarious the word choice is in their name when that’s their business model… The illusion of choice)
4 meat Packers
2 food distributors (mostly Sysco)
General Mills, J&J, and maybe 4 other parent companies (all American) own and manufacture 80% of what’s in your supermarket or drugstore.
3 vehicle parent companies that own every brand imaginable.
3 guys own all of our main stream media, print, and radio.
I could go on and on…
Everything is merged and consolidated into these gigantic duolopolies. The same people own both of the companies, but it technically skirts our anti-trust laws because it’s two separate entities.
While I don’t dispute anything you’re saying what’s your proposal to change this that is grounded in geopolitical reality?
An NDP/Green majority will never happen in our lifetime. What do we do instead? We will never be a socialist state. How do we be more responsible capitalists?
It’s a natural result of incentives I think.
“Show me your incentives and I’ll tell you the outcomes”
So I think the most likely course of action is it runs its course and it all collapses due to the rich 1%'s hubris. What incentive do the majority of the 1% have if they practically own nothing relative to the 1% of the 1%? That’s when you get elite civil war and infighting. Maybe they’ll realize on their own that this is headed towards disaster? Again, I think incentives make that almost impossible.
The alternative I would prefer to see is nationalization of natural monopolies like rail, telecom, power, natural gas .etc. they all operate as the definition of a natural monopoly (actually basically all of the duolopolies I listed are partial or complete natural monopolies)
Natural monopoly: where the cost of building a network is extremely capital intensive, requires dedicated Right Of Way (ROW) procurement or eminent domain, and where the marginal cost of adding more customers or running more freight is almost zero compared to building the network in the first place.
Natural monopolies shouldn’t be private enterprise since they by definition can’t be competed with. Are we going to build a second parallel power system? Is every house going to have 5 natural gas stubs for 5 competing natural gas pipeline networks?
All of those deserve to be nationalized. It’s the reason oil monopolies either get split up or they get nationalized. Oil is a different beast though where you can have companies competing at each step of exploration, extraction, transport, refinement, distribution, storage .etc (each is almost its own natural monopoly though in each category.)
Tax the rich. Start rebuilding the public wealth that has been sold off over the past 40 years. Reinvent capitalism along more sustainable lines where it’s possible, build alternatives to it where it isn’t. Or maybe just let things roll along the path of least resistance for a few more years and then watch it all crash and burn.
By saying that even a relatively modest goal such as an NDP government “will never happen” you’re casting a vote for the latter.
It’s not your choice to be presiential, it is the president’s choice what the store carries and you take it or get nothing.
I have no name, and I must buy