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I have a much different perspective of the human work force's future.
This is but a test run of the new normal, less the virus. Get use to it as total leisure time within the decade from AI is coming.
Let's see if we survive before, or after we get there.
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Originally posted by woodland View PostThe irrigation comment was meant in sarcasm.............. I guess I’ll note that better next time. No interest in doing so since our growing season is short and even getting barley to maturity is a battle lately. I agree that if someone wants it they better “pony upâ€. I’d rather have more heat than water. I’d even pay for it if that was an option.
Yes I know but I always like a soap box ....don't know why dryland farmers are not afforded the same 40 dollar an acre for 5 years subsidy....given all the current issues....
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Originally posted by Austrian Economics View PostFunded by what? The money tree at 23 Sussex?
Various provincial utilities have already done the hydro dam thing. Now they are stuck with white elephants producing power that has to be sold at a loss. You propose to do more of the same?
Why not use the despised carbon tax to build something instead of just a money shuffle from Peter to Paul? Would it be an easier sell to those of us who question climate change?
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Originally posted by ajl View PostAt some point you are going to have to let free market forces sort this all out. Spending money you don't have works for a while. The whole exercise of the past decade was to get out of the great recession by government intervention. It has now ended in failure. The US tried hard to normalize the process of setting interest rates by removing FED interventions and that has now failed as well unfortunately. If future generations have any chance at living standards above subsistence levels, free market economic will have to make a comeback and that will be bitter medicine.
Are you saying absolutely no government involvement in anything? No trade deals? Because those deals involve give And take
And we d be squashed by any of rhe big countries including the USA worse than we are now.
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Originally posted by the big wheel View PostWhat free market? Describe the parameters of a free market? For example When you lower oil companies fees or you raise crop insurance premiums to pay for those fees that isn’t free market. No health system all private?
Are you saying absolutely no government involvement in anything? No trade deals? Because those deals involve give And take
And we d be squashed by any of rhe big countries including the USA worse than we are now.
.but if Trump puts tariffs on foreign oil to protect domestic oil companies or if Trudeau or Kenney build pipelines or join a north American oil cartel...
That's no longer a open market that is a government subsidy IMHO...
If the Airlines are bailed out to the same way they have been in the states ...that is a subsidy
ETC ETC
Then someone can explain where the open market is ...other than a few dumbshit farmers who advise the conservative party thinking they want to put their farms against the treasuries of other nations...
We are now a communist country when everyone is getting their pay check from the government...people and business alike....
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Yes the free market has been AWOL so long nobody would recognize it. As far as trade deals are concerned, the only one worth bothering with is USMCA as the US BUYS 75% of our exports. No other market is planning to buy from us any time soon so trade deal not worth nuthin. Need to stop the money printing press so that hard work, innovation, and entrepreneurship gets rewarded again. Speculative assets like real estate, stocks, bonds, gold etc. will drop to 1/3 present levels and others will be able access them. Broke governments spending more of what they do not have will only serve to prolong the pain. However, everybody know which way this is going to go so the recession is now permanent. Even president Trump was on the wrong side of the market in the early 90's as he had built hotels and casinos in Atlantic city in the late 80's and rates rose on him. That is why be was broke in those days.
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Originally posted by woodland View PostThe hydro dam thing hasn’t been done as much in Alberta. It could accomplish several goals like flood control for Edmonton and power generation which our province is very tight on currently and do so in a “green†way.
Why not use the despised carbon tax to build something instead of just a money shuffle from Peter to Paul? Would it be an easier sell to those of us who question climate change?
What do you mean by "build something"? Define this term. The "something" that you build has to be profitable and produce goods that consumers are actually willing to pay for. Otherwise, the something just amounts to shuffling money between Peter and Paul.
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Originally posted by the big wheel View Post...
And we d be squashed by any of rhe big countries including the USA worse than we are now.
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