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    Industry professionals say unbought condos could lead to big layoffs

    Everything is unaffordable, workers are all being laid off, AI is replacing people, minimum wage isn’t enough to support a living wage…

    What’s the capitalist end-game here? A world full of poor, unemployed, desperate people likely won’t make shareholders any richer, will it?

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      Bold of you to assume any of them are looking past the next quarter or two. Long term survival is secondary to immediate profits, line must go up.

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          It’s right. Sure, some people have parachutes. Some people have things that look like parachutes but aren’t, or parachutes that don’t steer properly. Doesn’t mean the plane is crashing on purpose, and not because we’re just dumb, even if that’s a more comforting possibility.

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            maybe you are right, seems i got lost, this is canada’s space.

            in america we do have someone at the wheel actively crashing the plane.

            sorry for butting in though

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              That guy is a moron. I’m not sure he’d know a wheel from his foot. He’s just the symptom of a system that’s in a death spiral.

              Which I’m sorry about. Hopefully we’re there as a place to go when things get really bad.

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                Thank you! I’ve heard so many Canadians on subreddits want collective punishment and don’t want American victims of Trump to come to Canada even though they can be a massive help to both our economy and our weight in the world through higher numbers of educated people (brain gain instead of drain)! Lets not forget 49.9% voted for trump, the rest are fine imo.

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                  Eh, assholes are born everywhere.

                  Beyond the collective punishment thing, there’s also the concern about the effect on housing, which is more reasonable. Either BCH needs to be absolutely roaring by the time a big migration happens, or they’re going to have to stay in refugee camps until things slow down. When one of them asks specifically about leaving, I always say bring an RV.

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        “I guess we’ll see what happens.”

        ~ Billionaire CEO who can support his family for the next 1,000 generations.

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          Historically big business wealth only lasts a few, actually. Nepobabies spend big, and each can have several children of their own to which the wealth has to be divided.

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            How dare you use facts and logic! This is whining sublemmy and I find it appalling that you don’t just whine like everyone else!

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              Yeah, they all seem to gravitate towards that. Hopefully I’m helping.

              Since I’ve been white knighting for developers and investors up and down this thread, I should probably mention that I still am team eat the rich, or at least team we shouldn’t have any rich. The funny thing is that they wish they were evil geniuses, like their opposite number seems to want to think.

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          You can decide to make a left turn without knowing whether you’re going to end up in Kamloops or Kapuskasing by doing so. That’s the level of steering that’s going on: no one is looking past, at most, the next couple of intersections, and the GPS is on the fritz.

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          Deliberately, definitely not. Like OP said, why would anyone want this?

          There’s leaders, but there’s a lot of leaders, they have interests at odds with each other, and none of them have a position that can’t be lost one way or the other (even dictators fear a coup). In the end, they end up part of the system, not controlling it.

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      What’s the capitalist end-game here?

      That capitalists maximumize their wealth.

      And ultimately that there can be only one, and they all believe that it’ll be them

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      The capitalists’ game is to pivot their wealth and influence to becoming the dictators of countries. It’s world domination.

      I’m not kidding.

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        Dumbing down the population. Remove critical thinking. Reinstate the harshest of religious beliefs. Feudalism.