responding to real worker shortages
There is no such thing. In a capitalistic free market, the price of labour is set by the market. If the demand is more than the supply, that’s not a bad thing, that’s just the short amount of time that labour has some leverage, and it’s destroyed with increasing supply.
My hope is that this whipsaws through the economy and hurts so many people so badly that a) we learn to never let it happen again, and b) that it emboldens governments to finally tax the shit out of the rich.
I’m so glad some people realize this: we are past the point of wishing things just get slowly better. History has taught me that in this world, when people are so apathetic to important issues, things need to get so bad sometimes so everyone gets a wake up call.
I don’t get people’s criticism about this.
My friend tried to turn me against carbon tax by pointing out that I’m being taxed for keeping my home warm.
I told him, I don’t have to pay that tax if I upgrade to electric heating. And this is exactly what is good about it, it incentivizes someone like me to make an investment in electric heating.
I mean, Canada doesn’t have much to do with the conflict and has a lot of its own problems but yeah, I guess PP being outrageous to get publicity is pretty on brand.